Natural Products: Source of Innovation

摘要

Natural Products play a central role in Life Science for chemical innovation. Sources of natural products are as diverse as extraction from cells, tissues, and secretions of microorganisms, plants and animals. Nature provides a unique chemical diversity and complexity leading often to novel chemical compounds that stimulate chemical synthetic challenges and interest in academia and industry. Life science is interested in the natural product itself, or a semi-synthetic derivative, or to use it as inspiration for synthesis, or to validate a new mode of action. Today, natural product research is increasingly going beyond synthetic chemistry expertise and includes investigation of biosynthetic pathways, isolation and structure elucidation and synthetic biology as a powerful new tool for the discovery and production of novel bioactive natural products.