The publishing house Elsevier has issued the first edition of the book Biodiversity and Biomedicine: Our Future, edited by Prof. Munir Ozturk, Dr. Dilfuza Egamberdieva, and Dr. Milica Pešić. Biodiversity and Biomedicine: Our Future provides a new outlook on Earth’s animal, plant, and fungi species as vital sources for human health treatments. Written by leading biodiversity and biomedical experts, the book discusses the human health benefits of biologically active compounds from natural resources, and how the threatened presence of these species must be reversed to conserve biodiversity.

Researchers from the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade are involved in operations of  laboratories of the Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera "Torlak", the newly established "Huo-Yan National Laboratory for Molecular Detection of Infectious Agents Belgrade" in the Clinical Center, the National Reference Laboratory in Batajnica, and the Department of Biocides and Medical Ecology in COVID-19 research, together with researchers from the University of Belgrade: the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Biology, the Institute for Medical Research - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, the School of Medicine, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and the Institute for Applied Nuclear Energy.