New gift from Mother Nature's medicine chest may help prevent and treat bone diseases
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
One of Mother Nature's latest gifts to medical science is stirring excitement with the discovery that the substance obtained from a coral-reef inhabiting cyanobacterium appears to be an ideal blueprint for developing new drugs for serious fractures, osteoporosis, and other bone diseases. That's the conclusion of a study on the substance, Largazole, in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.