This video segment, adapted from NOVA uses reenactment footage to show how chemist Percy Julian completed the total synthesis of physostigmine, an alkaloid derived from the Calabar bean that could be ...

Medicinal alkaloids in lotus accumulate in highly specific organs, yet the molecular basis of this spatial pattern has remained unclear. A new study ...

Stephacidin A and its congeners are a collection of secondary metabolites that possess intriguing structural motifs. They stem from unusual biosynthetic sequences that lead to the incorporation of a ...