Medicine from the Sea. Kevin Krajick.
by Krajick, Kevin; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 72Science. Publisher: Smithsonian, 2004ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Drugs -- Research | Marine animals | Marine pharmacology | Marine plants | Microbiologists | National Cancer Institute (U.S.) | Scientists | Slime | SpongesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "[Fred] Rainey was not prospecting for oil. A microbiologist at Louisiana State University, he was on the trail of an unlikely quarry: slime. In particular, he sought algae, sponges, sea urchins, soft corals and other squishy, mostly immobile organisms that have attached to the oil platforms' undersides in tangled mats up to a foot and a half thick. Scientists believe that from such lowly marine creatures a number of medications may one day be derived." (SMITHSONIAN) This article discusses scientists' search for medicines derived from marine life.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Medicine from the Sea, May 2004; pp. 50+.
"[Fred] Rainey was not prospecting for oil. A microbiologist at Louisiana State University, he was on the trail of an unlikely quarry: slime. In particular, he sought algae, sponges, sea urchins, soft corals and other squishy, mostly immobile organisms that have attached to the oil platforms' undersides in tangled mats up to a foot and a half thick. Scientists believe that from such lowly marine creatures a number of medications may one day be derived." (SMITHSONIAN) This article discusses scientists' search for medicines derived from marine life.
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