NATURAL PRODUCTS EMERGENT

Fermentation rooms, at Warp Drive Bio, could open the door to natural product drug discovery


Natural compounds produced by the world’s microbes were once the go-to source of molecules for the drug industry before the chemistry dried up and big pharma went packing. Now, researchers hope that advances in genomics will bring companies back into the fold.

volume 19 | number 4 | april 2013 nature medicine