says Timothy Mitchison at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology. For example, pharmaceutical chemist, Youyou Tu, discovered artemisinin, an antimalarial extract from the plant ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web ...

New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides ...

Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential ...

Native Americans have used these plants traditionally as medicine for centuries, and they are collaborating with Salk in studying them.

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Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create ...