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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Blockbuster Ocean Drugs on the Horizon?


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As leads for new drugs on land dry up, medicine hunters are plunging into the oceans in search of the next blockbuster drug.

Nereus Pharmaceuticals is developing a medicine (above, top, compounds under investigation) from a tumor-killing fungus that grows on sea grass (below) in the Bahamas.

Photograph courtesy Nereus Pharmaceuticals