The timer starts. Cassandra Quave has exactly two minutes and one PowerPoint slide to explain her work as a medical ethnobotanist at Emory University, a feat that took 12 hours to accomplish in the ...

For centuries, plants and herbs — from peppermint and chamomile to aspirin and opium — have been long known to hold medicinal qualities. Before advances in modern medicine, synthetic drugs, and ...

With resistance to antibiotics rising, ancient remedies are getting a second look. Could plant-based drugs save us? Dr. Quave in her laboratory at Emory University, where she directs drug discovery ...

LITTLE ROCK — When many people hear the phrase “alternative medicine,” they tend to only focus on the first word. The “medicine” part gets lost among visions of strange, ancient practices or ...

Leaves of the European chestnut tree contain ingredients with the power to disarm dangerous staph bacteria without boosting its drug resistance, scientists have found. PLOS ONE is publishing the study ...

The red berries of the Brazilian peppertree—a weedy, invasive species common in Florida—contain an extract with the power to disarm dangerous antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, scientists at Emory ...

The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, penicillin, and morphine. Researchers have now identified a molecule they called ...

BioTechniques Digital Editor, Tristan Free talks to Cassandra Quave of Emory University (GA, USA) about her research analyzing botanical natural products to determine their pharmacological potential.