From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health

Peninah Murage and colleagues argue that biodiversity is the cornerstone of healthy natural habitats. Its preservation is vital to human health and should therefore be embedded into medical and healthcare studies

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  2021-10-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/bmj.n2329PMID 34610952
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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