From antibiotic resistance to emerging viral threats, the global demand for new medicines is intensifying, yet traditional drug discovery pipelines remain slow and expensive. A new scientific review suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could dramatically accelerate the search for life-saving therapies derived from natural sources. The paper, Rethinking Nature’s Pharmacy: AI Era and Natural Product Drug Discovery, published in Pharmaceuticals, examines how AI-driven systems are reshaping genome mining, compound screening, molecular design and precision medicine in natural product research. Reviving natural product drug discovery through AI Natural products have long served as the backbone of pharmaceutical innovation. Nearly half of...