Golden root plants
Plant Biology

Multimedia feature: Uncovering nature's riches

Written by

Greta Friar

Experience a multimedia story exploring Whitehead Member Jing-Ke Weng’s work. Weng’s laboratory is combining the ancient wisdom of traditional plant-based global medicine with genomics, analytical chemistry, and synthetic biology in order to advance our understanding of plant metabolic evolution and impact a new era of natural products-based therapeutics. Click here to read the full story. 

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