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Bioprospecting

Exploration of nature for material with commercial potentialMany important medications have been discovered by bioprospecting including the diabetes drug metformin (developed from a natural product found in Galega officinalis).Bioprospecting (also known as biodiversity prospecting) is the exploration of natural sources for small molecules, macromolecules and biochemical and genetic information that could be developed into commercially valuable products for the agricultural, aquaculture, bioremediation, cosmetics, nanotechnology, or pharmaceutical industries.

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