From Nature to Medicine: Exploring Natural Products for New Therapies

Dear Colleagues,

In current times, poor nutrition and lifestyles, together with environmental pollution and global warming, have contributed to the deterioration in the quality of life. This set of factors has exposed the human being to new and known microorganisms are more aggressive and resistant to current drugs, increasing the time of application of drugs and limiting the success of conventional treatments. In turn, these factors have generated an increase in non-communicable diseases such as cancer, at younger ages, deteriorating the quality of life of those affected and decreasing their life expectancy in addition to all the problems that come with the treatment of this disease. For this reason we are looking for new alternatives to conventional treatments of diseases caused by microorganisms and cancer through natural products such as essential oils, resinous exudates, and/or plant extracts, as well as the secondary metabolites present in these products and their hemisynthetic derivatives.

Since IJMS is a journal of molecular science, thus pure clinical studies will not be suitable for our journal. But clinical submissions with biomolecular experiments are welcomed.

Dr. Alejandro Madrid
Guest Editor

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