Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even ...

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 ...

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

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 ...