Natural Medicine Discoveries Gain Momentum

By: Rachel Tayse

Natural medicine discoveries gain momentum as academic microbiologists use modern technology to assist in their hunt for ways of winning the war over superbug-killing bacteria. Today, more than half of the medicine used to treat an illness or disease resulted from an inspiration or originated from plants, animals, or bacteria.

A major change is taking place where contemporary gene-sequencing machines are capable of reading microbial DNA, inexpensively and fast. This emerging technology opens doors in an innovative field called genome mining; a broadening frontier responsible for …read more