Biodiversity, drug discovery, and the future of global health: Introducing the biodiversity to biomedicine consortium, a call to action
Vidushi S. NeergheenUniversity of Mauritius, Réduit, Moka, MauritiusAlmas Taj AwanFederal University of Săo Carlos, Săo Carlos, BrazilYusuf BaranIzmir Institute of Technology and Abdullah Gul University, Izmir, TurkeyNils BunnefeldStirling Conservation Science, Stirling University, Striling, UKKit Yee ChanCentre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UKThomas Edison E. dela CruzUniversity of Santo Tomas, Manila, PhilippinesDilfuza EgamberdievaNational University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, UzbekistantSimon J. ElsässerKarolinska Institute, Stockholm, SwedenMari–Vaughn V. JohnsonUnited States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USAShoji KomaiNara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, JapanAndrey L. KonevegaPetersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Petersburg, RussiaJohn H. MaloneUniversity of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USAPaul H. MasonSchool of Social Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaRothsophal NguonPańńāsāstra University, Phnom Penh, CambodiaRoss PiperUniversity of Leeds, Leeds, UKUttam Babu ShresthaUniversity of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, AustraliaMilica PešićUniversity of Belgrade, Belgrade, SerbiaAlexander KaganskyUniversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
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Аннотация
ooking to nature for medicine is nothing new -we have been doing it for tens of thousands of years and although modern pharmaceutical science has come a long way from those ancient roots, nature is and will always be an important source of useful compounds and inspiration. Dismissing nature in this regard is a huge mistake as evolution is the greatest problem solver and the myriad compounds produced by the immense variety of species we share the planet with have been honed by three billion years of trial and error. However, with every bit of habitat that disappears under the plough or concrete we impoverish nature and deprive ourselves of potential medicines.
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