Médicaments modernes dérivés de produits naturels
Il y en a trop pour les nommer. Les plantes médicinales ont été l'une des sources les plus utiles de nouveaux médicaments depuis le début de la médecine moderne. Aujourd'hui, la découverte de médicaments continue de dépendre de produits naturels.
A 2007 report[47] found that of the 974 small molecule new chemical entities developed between 1981 and 2006, 63% were natural derived or semisynthetic derivatives of natural products.
Drug Discovery and Natural Products: End of an Era or an Endless Frontier?
However, untapped biological resources, “smart screening” methods, robotic separation with structural analysis, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology offer exciting technologies for new natural product drug discovery. Advances in rapid genetic sequencing, coupled with manipulation of biosynthetic pathways, may provide a vast resource for the future discovery of pharmaceutical agents.