ICMR releases two books on Indian Medicinal Plants for drug development and valuable in regulatory submissions: Our Bureau, Bengaluru Friday, May 30, 2025, 16:15 Hrs [IST] Indian ...

Pollen’s latest book goes deeper into that territory. It’s called “This is Your Mind On Plants,” and it focuses on three drugs derived from plants: opium, caffeine and mescaline.

Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs. Specifically ...

The earliest evidence for the use of plants as drugs—possibly for medication or a pick-me-up—may have been found amid human remains in a 15,000-year-old cave burial in North Africa.

Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel most famously raised public and scientific awareness of the unmistakable fact that animals seek out intoxicating substances in his 1989 book, Intoxication ...

Recommended Books of the month ... We have to figure out the right rituals for each drug.” ‘This Is Your Mind on Plants’ by Michael Pollan is out now.

In the early 20th century, scientists identified guanidine derivatives in the plant as the compounds responsible for its glucose-lowering effects. However, these early drugs were also soon ...

By testing these locks for chemical compounds called alkaloids that are present in psychoactive plants, the researchers were able to pinpoint who, exactly, would have been using drugs thousands of ...

The firms that are overdue for safety and quality inspections represent about 42% of the 4,700 plants that are currently registered to produce drugs for the U.S. and previously underwent FDA ...

But the recently published book, Brutalist Plants, does just that, as its contents are derived from author Olivia Broome’s Instagram account. It is unusual for a book review to begin by ...

Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in ...