What does a natural products researcher do?

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has a broad interest in studying the biological activities of natural products (also called nutritional interventions), such as prebiotics, dietary supplements, botanicals, and vitamins.

Where do we find natural products?

6.5 Where Do We Find Natural Products? Natural products may be extracted from the cells, tissues, and secretions of microorganisms, plants and animals. A crude (unfractionated) extract from any one of these sources will contain a range of structurally diverse and often novel chemical compounds.

What is natural products chemistry?

Natural products chemistry is the study of substances produced by living organisms. Research can help improve the understanding of biological processes or identify compounds that may lead to the development of new drugs.

Is Nature Communications a legitimate journal?

Nature Communications is one of the highly regarded peer-reviewed journals in the publishing industry. Nature in itself is a renowned publisher. Nature is also known as NComms. Nature is an open access journal accepting scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty.

What is the importance of studying natural products?

The study of natural products offers an excellent strategy toward identifying novel biological probes for a number of diseases. Historically, natural products have played an important role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs for a number of diseases including cancer and infection.

Why are natural products important?

Throughout our evolution, the importance of natural products for medicine and health has been enormous. Since our earliest ancestors chewed on certain herbs to relieve pain, or wrapped leaves around wounds to improve healing, natural products have often been the sole means to treat diseases and injuries.

Why do we study natural products?

How good is Nature Communications?

Nature Communications is a respectable “megajournal” a tier below the subject journals. It accepts a larger number of publications. Scientific Reports accepts a very large number of publications and most any good science can be published there. Its impact factor is half of Nature Communications.

What is the acceptance rate of Nature Communications?

The definition of journal acceptance rate is the percentage of all articles submitted to Nature Communications that was accepted for publication. Based on the Journal Acceptance Rate Feedback System database, the latest acceptance rate of Nature Communications is 48.7%.