Scientists hunting for a new malaria treatment may have found a solution within a historic natural compound collection housed at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology.
“The parasites are evolving, so it’s critically important to identify new antimalarial drugs that have mechanisms of action that differ from past drugs,” said chemist Ben Shen, Ph.D., founder of the Natural Products Discovery Center at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute. “The compounds we identified originated in soil microbes and extracts housed within our natural products collection.”
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