Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting new opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

1. Recent insights into the emerging role of triterpenoids in cancer therapy: part I, 2. Recent advances in medicinal applications of brassinosteroids, a group of plant hormones3. Synthesis of bioactive natural products by propargylic carboxylic ester rearrangements4. Catalytic asymmetric strategies for the synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles5. Abyssomicins - isolation, properties and synthesis6. Progress in the syntheses of dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans7. Lessons from the sea: distribution, SAR and molecular mechanisms of anti-inflammatory drugs from marine organisms8. Marine resource: a promising future for anticancer drugs9. 14β-hydroxy pregnanes from succulent plants belonging to Hoodia gordonii and Caralluma genus: Extraction, biological activities and synthesis10. Chemico-biological aspects of plant lectins with a preference to legume lectins11. Lycopene. A review of chemical and biological activity related to beneficial health effects12. Oleuropeic and menthiafolic acid glucose esters from plants: shared structural relationships and biological activities13. Pharmacological effects of Cordyceps and its bioactive compounds14. Silymarin flavonolignans: structure-activity relationship and biosynthesis15. Natural antioxidants in cosmetics