Inspiring new drug discovery by pseudo natural products
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 06:20
in Biology & Nature
Almost a third of available pharmaceuticals are based on natural products. The discovery of new natural products-inspired drugs, however, is slow due to their limited chemical diversity, their high chemical complexity and the resulting low yields. The group of Herbert Waldmann has found a way to bypass these limitations by developing substances with new molecular frameworks that don't look like natural substances, but hold the same biological properties.