Natural Products Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine Edited by by Edited
Lixin Zhang Arnold L. Demain
Natural Products
Natural Products Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine
Edited by
Lixin Zhang, PhD Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, and SynerZ Pharmaceuticals Inc., Lexington, MA
Edited by
Arnold L. Demain, PhD Charles A. Dana Research Institute (R.I.S.E.), Drew University, Madison, NJ
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