Now a team of Brazilian scientists has put that tradition through a modern stress test: standardized extracts, controlled ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to claim lives, UC Irvine researchers have identified a plant extract that may help fight opiate addiction. The COVID-19 pandemic has further worsened the opioid ...

A plant used in Brazilian medicine has scientific potential to help people with arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. Researchers tested Joseph’s Coat (Alternanthera littoralis) in lab studies ...

Extracts from blueberries and blackcurrants prevent infection by measles and herpes viruses in cell cultures. Würzburg researchers were very surprised by this. For a long time, certain plant extracts ...

Even in the era of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, many biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies still rely on nature for many therapies. For example, synthetic biologist Nicola ...

Researchers have discovered that extracts from plants used by the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations peoples in their traditional botanical medicine practices are able to rescue the function of ion channel ...