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ClearMarine Natural Products: A Source of Novel Anticancer Drugs
This review explores marine natural products as potential sources for new anticancer drugs, highlighting compounds derived from marine plants, algae, bacteria, fungi, and invertebrates. Researchers found that marine organisms produce diverse bioactive metabolites with unique chemical structures that show promise against cancer cells. The study underscores the ocean as a largely untapped reservoir of compounds that could lead to novel therapeutic approaches.
Natural Nanoparticles: A Particular Matter Inspired by Nature
This review surveys natural nanoparticles — including those derived from minerals, plants, and microorganisms — highlighting their diverse properties and applications in medicine, agriculture, and environmental remediation. Understanding natural nanoparticle behavior in the environment provides a useful contrast for evaluating how synthetic nanoplastics interact with biological systems.
Bioactive Compounds and Their Derivatives: An Insight into Prospective Phytotherapeutic Approach against Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers reviewed natural bioactive compounds from plant sources for their potential neuroprotective effects related to Alzheimer's disease. The study highlights how these compounds may modulate molecular mechanisms involved in disease development, while noting challenges such as limited bioavailability and blood-brain barrier permeability.
Biochemical Foundations of Life: Integrating Biology and Chemistry for Modern Science
This textbook integrates biology and chemistry to provide biochemical foundations for modern science education, covering core topics in biochemistry for students and researchers.
Chemical Profiling and Biological Activity of Psydrax dicoccos Gaertn
This study profiled the chemical composition and biological activity of Psydrax dicoccos leaf and bark extracts, testing their potential against breast cancer cells as a safer natural alternative to synthetic chemotherapy drugs.
Progressive Biocatalysts for the Treatment of Aqueous Systems Containing Pharmaceutical Pollutants
This review covers the occurrence of pharmaceutical pollutants across diverse water sources and evaluates biological treatment approaches including enzymes and whole cells as catalysts for their degradation, identifying promising biocatalysts and knowledge gaps for effective pharmaceutical wastewater treatment.
Contemporary Studies in Biological Sciences I
This book brought together contemporary studies in biological sciences covering topics including bioactive compound discovery from algae, medicinal properties of ginger, and plant tissue culture applications. The collection provides a survey of current research directions in biological sciences relevant to pharmacology and biotechnology.
Challenges and Future Prospects: A Benefaction of Phytoconstituents on Molecular Targets Pertaining to Alzheimer’s Disease
This review explores the potential of plant-derived compounds as therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease, examining how various phytochemicals interact with molecular targets involved in the condition. Researchers summarize evidence on natural compounds that may help address inflammation, oxidative stress, and protein buildup in the brain. The study highlights the need for further research to translate these preliminary findings into viable treatment approaches.
From Molecules to Materials, Devices and Processes: The Chemical Basis of Novel Technologies
This special issue overview presents research contributions from the joint XIII National Congress of AICIng and the II National Congress of the Division of Chemistry for the Technologies of the Italian Chemical Society, connecting molecular chemistry to novel materials, devices, and industrial processes.
Hierarchy of hybrid materials. Part-II: The place of organics-on-inorganics in it, their composition and applications
This review classifies and examines organic-on-inorganic hybrid materials, covering their structure, properties, and wide-ranging applications from catalysis to biomedicine, highlighting how combining organic molecules with metallic and non-metallic inorganic substrates creates synergistic material properties.
Biodiversity of Secondary Metabolites Compounds Isolated from Phylum Actinobacteria and Its Therapeutic Applications
This review summarizes the biodiversity of secondary metabolites produced by Actinobacteria across diverse ecological environments, including marine, terrestrial, and extreme habitats. Researchers found that these bacteria produce a wide range of bioactive compounds with potential pharmaceutical applications, including antimicrobial, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory properties. The study highlights the importance of exploring underinvestigated environments for discovering novel natural products.
Harnessing the Potential of Biosurfactants for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications
This review examines biosurfactants, which are naturally produced compounds with potential applications in medicine and pharmaceuticals, including antimicrobial, anticancer, and drug delivery uses. Researchers found that biosurfactants offer advantages over synthetic alternatives due to their biodegradability and lower toxicity. The study highlights their promise as coating agents for medical devices and as components in sustainable personal care products.
Burnos gleivinės preparato su natūraliais bioaktyviais junginiais modeliavimas ir technologija
Researchers modeled and developed an oral mucosal preparation containing natural bioactive compounds, investigating formulation technology for a pharmaceutical product designed to interact with the oral mucosa using naturally derived ingredients.
Introduction to advances in bio-based polymers: chemical structures and functional properties at the interface
This introduction to a special issue on bio-based polymers summarized recent advances in the chemical structures, synthesis, and functional applications of polymers derived from renewable biological sources. It contextualizes how bio-based materials can replace petrochemical plastics across multiple industries.
Biodegradação e biorremediação de fármacos, cosméticos e produtos de higiene pessoal
This chapter reviews biological degradation and bioremediation techniques for removing pharmaceuticals and personal care product chemicals from wastewater, as these compounds are regularly discharged into water sources and harm aquatic ecosystems. Complete removal of these emerging contaminants remains technically challenging and represents an active area of environmental research.
Green Chemistry Principles In Biopolymer Synthesis
This review synthesises green chemistry strategies applied to biopolymer synthesis — including renewable feedstocks, benign solvents, enzyme catalysis, and energy-efficient processes — evaluating how biopolymers derived from natural or biological sources can serve as sustainable alternatives to conventional fossil-based plastics.
Bamboos: From Bioresource to Sustainable Materials and Chemicals
This review covers bamboo as an exceptionally engineered natural bioresource, examining its applications as a sustainable feedstock for materials, chemicals, and bio-based products that can substitute for conventional plastics and petrochemicals.
Trends in the Environmental Analytical Chemistry
This editorial overview describes the interdisciplinary scope of environmental analytical chemistry, encompassing the study of complex interactions between biota, humans, and aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments under the influence of anthropogenic activities. It positions the field as integrating chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine to address global environmental challenges.
Replacing all petroleum-based chemical products with natural biomass-based chemical products: a tutorial review
This tutorial review explores the feasibility of replacing petroleum-based chemical products with alternatives derived from natural biomass. The study examines the current ratio of petroleum-derived chemical production and outlines pathways for transitioning to plant-based and other renewable feedstocks. The review suggests that biomass-based replacements could significantly reduce plastic pollution and dependence on fossil fuels.
Hydrophobic Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents for Extraction of Bioactive Compounds: Multiscale Characterization, Quantum Simulations, and Molecular Interaction Studies with Cry j1 and Amb a1 Allergens
Researchers synthesized and characterized hydrophobic natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) and tested their ability to extract bioactive compounds from plant materials, evaluating the solvents as green alternatives that could reduce reliance on synthetic plastic-packaged extraction chemicals.
Eco-luxury: Making sustainable drugs and cosmetics with Prosopis cineraria natural extracts
This review examines the properties and potential applications of Prosopis cineraria, a wild plant native to hot arid and semi-arid regions, synthesizing evidence on its beneficial compounds and evaluating its prospects as a sustainable natural source for pharmaceutical and cosmetic formulations as an alternative to synthetic compounds.
American Chemical Society Fall 2020 National Meeting and Expostion
This is a conference proceedings abstract compilation from the American Chemical Society Fall 2020 National Meeting and Exposition. It is a collection of abstracts rather than a primary research article.
Natural and Natural-Based Polymers: Recent Developments in Management of Emerging Pollutants
This review explores how natural and bio-based polymers can be used to remove a range of emerging pollutants from water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It highlights natural materials as sustainable, cost-effective alternatives to synthetic adsorbents and aligns with green chemistry principles. The work is relevant to microplastics in that it frames them as part of a broader emerging contaminant problem and explores biopolymer-based solutions for water purification.
Application of terpenoids for the remediation of environmental water polluted with bisphenol A and its analogs using an in silico approach
Researchers used computational modeling to evaluate whether terpenoids, natural compounds found in plants, could help remediate water contaminated with bisphenol A and related chemicals that leach from plastics. The in silico approach assessed the binding interactions between terpenoids and these endocrine-disrupting compounds. The study suggests that plant-derived terpenoids may offer a promising natural strategy for addressing plastic-related chemical pollution in water systems.