What does cannabis, coca leaf, and all coffee have in common? They all contain alkaloids, a powerful group of medicinal compounds found in plants around the world. While little is presently known ...

The central government has for the first time allowed a private company, Bajaj Healthcare, to process opium to extract alkaloids used to make pain-killers, cough syrups, and even cancer drugs.

Mazza Innovation is gaining increasing attention in dietary supplement circles, with its technology offering an environmentally friendly, solvent-free way of extracting compounds like polyphenols, ...

The Central government has decided to rope in the private sector to commence production of concentrated poppy straw from India’s opium crop to boost their yield of alkaloids, used for medical purposes ...

Ready access to complex compounds will allow pharmacological studies of potential painkillers. Yeast cells have been turned into biological factories that manufacture a range of alkaloids — naturally ...

Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh): Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) and All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) expressed their resentment over the Government of Indiaís decision to give the work of processing opium ...