摘要
The inaugural issue of Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology coincides with the celebration of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,which was awarded to Profs.Youyou Tu,William C.Campbell and SatoshiOˉmura for the discovery of artemisinin and avermectin,respectively.The efficacy of both artemisinin and avermectin as parasitic disease treatments won the recognition of the whole world,revealing the dawning of renaissance of natural product-based drug discovery.
