{"id":15588,"date":"2023-10-17T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2023-10-17T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:18:33","slug":"medicinal-fynbos-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/de\/medicinal-fynbos-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicinal Fynbos Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vuyo Lab, based at Stellenbosch University, is named after its founder, Dr. Vuyo Mavumengwana who is a biochemist passionate about using natural products to fight disease. He believes that the plants, bacteria and fungi of the Fynbos ecosystem have the potential to yield new and effective drugs for diseases like breast cancer, brain cancer and tuberculosis. Recently, the Vuyo Lab made some exciting discoveries from Fynbos plants sampled at the Grootbos Nature Reserve. They identified four plants,&nbsp;<em>Eriocephalus racemosa, Erica glabella, Hippia frutescens<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Salvia africana-lutea<\/em>, which contain a variety of bioactive compounds that kill breast cancer cells. These four plants are therefore potential candidates for drug development.&nbsp;Besides anticancer projects, other projects in the Vuyo Lab include evaluating Fynbos plants for anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities for the discovery of new tuberculosis drugs.&nbsp;The Vuyo Lab welcomes all forms of collaboration that will facilitate the discovery of effective pharmaceutical agents using natural products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"759\" data-id=\"15591\" src=\"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ECoHBkOU0AEtqp0-1024x759.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ECoHBkOU0AEtqp0-1024x759.jpg 1024w, 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He believes that the plants, bacteria and fungi of the Fynbos ecosystem have the potential to yield new and effective drugs for diseases like breast cancer, brain cancer and tuberculosis. Recently, the Vuyo Lab made some exciting discoveries from Fynbos plants sampled at the Grootbos Nature Reserve. They identified four plants,&nbsp;Eriocephalus racemosa, Erica glabella, Hippia frutescens&nbsp;and&nbsp;Salvia africana-lutea, which contain a variety of bioactive compounds that kill breast cancer cells. These four plants are therefore potential candidates for drug development.&nbsp;Besides anticancer projects, other projects in the Vuyo Lab include evaluating Fynbos plants for anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities for the discovery of new tuberculosis drugs.&nbsp;The Vuyo Lab welcomes all forms of collaboration that will facilitate the discovery of effective pharmaceutical agents using natural products.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-at-gec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medicinal Fynbos Research - Grootbos Foundation NGO South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/de\/medicinal-fynbos-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medicinal Fynbos Research - Grootbos Foundation NGO South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Vuyo Lab, based at Stellenbosch University, is named after its founder, Dr. Vuyo Mavumengwana who is a biochemist passionate about using natural products to fight disease. 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