What's in this plant? The best automated system for finding potential drugs
Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have developed a new computational mass-spectrometry system for identifying metabolomes -- entire sets of metabolites for different living organisms. When the new method was tested on select tissues from 12 plants species, it was able to note over a thousand metabolites. Among them were dozens that had never been found before, including those with antibiotic and anti-cancer potential.