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Nature is the world's original pharmacy – returning to medicine's roots could help fill drug discovery gaps

  • Written by Ashu Tripathi, Director, Natural Product Discovery Core; Assistant Professor/ Research of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan
Nature is the world's original pharmacy – returning to medicine's roots could help fill drug discovery gapsAround 75% of antibiotics, including penicillin and amphotericin B, are derived from natural products.Aphiwat Chuangchoem/EyeEm via Getty Images

While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern medicine as we know it today got going only in the 19th and 20th centuries. So how did humans successfully...

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