This report summarizes a total of 2 months of internship project at the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand. This internship project takes place in the science department more specifically in the organic chemistry laboratory. During this internship, the authors tried to synthesize and investigate the intermediates of kusunokinin to enhance its anticancer activity. Kusunokinin inter…
Among the many causes of death, cancer has ranked second as the major contributor of mortality worldwide and has caused a high rate of mortality in Indonesia alone. Chemotherapy is a common treatment used to treat cancer, yet chemotherapy is cytotoxic to both cancer cells and healthy cells, causing a lot of undesired adverse effects such as hair loss, nausea, and anemia. Recently, plant-derived…
In the past 10 years, cancer research has been increasing and the discovery of new anticancer properties is targeted by the scientist. Medicinal plants are considered as the target for developing new anticancer drugs since it is more tolerable and has less side effects. Laportea decumana is one of the plants that grows in Papua, Indonesia. It has been used as the anti-fatigue and anti-stiff. It…