The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to make curative plants even better by exploring their genomes. The Medicinal Plants Initiative began three years ago by the botanic ...

This line of research, broadly, suggests that primates are capable of finding and determining the medicinal value of plants. “Chimpanzees rely on the forest, not just for food, and not just ...

Chimpanzees appear to consume plants with medicinal properties to treat their ailments, according to a study published on June 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elodie Freymann from the ...