Cervical cancer is one of the most common gynecologic cancers worldwide and continues to be a leading cause of cancer-related ...

Used medicinally by Native Americans for centuries, Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has now released two books on Indian Medicinal Plants. These are two volumes, according to the Council covering medicinal plants according to the alphabetical ...

A new drug delivery method could improve treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Currently available oral drugs for IBD must transit the ...

The San Diego Botanic Garden collaborated with the Salk Institute to make advancements toward plant-based drug discoveries.

Grab these two books or any good gardening book, find a comfortable chair, plant yourself in it, and read.

Remarkably, though, Mr. de Roode notes that “animals that feel sick or deficient are more likely to seek out novel diets” ...

The ability of plants to synthesize secondary metabolites has been of importance in drug development (Cowan 1999). Natural products or their semisynthetic derivatives, especially from fungi, have ...

Plants Have Given Us Crucial Lifesaving Drugs – And Now We Risk Losing Them Some of the world’s most powerful medicines come from plants, so our forests are probably worth keeping.

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.