A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages ...

The antimalarial treatment artemisinin, pain medication morphine, and cancer chemotherapy taxol are just three examples of drugs derived from plants. Africa is endowed with up to 45,000 plant ...

In this episode of Lexicon, Dr. Nazlie Latefi shares the fascinating science behind BioVanta, the challenges of bringing a ...

Victor Boddy wasn’t expecting to reinvent pharmaceutical manufacturing before graduation. But as drug shortages made ...

“These special features of plant-derived molecules cannot be achieved using standard synthetic drugs, which are systemically adsorbed,” he says. “I would encourage medical researchers to ...

Similarly, morphine and related drugs such as codeine are derived from the opium poppy, and still largely are in modern day manufacture. Many plant products containing such compounds can be ...

While impending federal and state legislation may close this loophole, Texas, Florida and Minnesota’s hemp-derived ...

The firms that are overdue for safety and quality inspections represent about 42% of the 4,700 plants that are currently registered to produce drugs for the U.S. and previously underwent FDA review ...