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Science, research, and perspectives on natural product discovery,
bioactive intelligence, and the future of molecular innovation.
Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
First recorded observation of a wild animal treating a wound with a medicinal plant, demonstrating the ancestral link between primates and natural bioactive discovery.
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Large-Scale Mapping of Cryptic Metabolomes in the Plant Kingdom via Foundation Transformer Models
A 2025 breakthrough using AI Transformer models to predict over 100,000 previously 'invisible' plant molecules, solving the chemical gap without land extraction.
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