Science news articles about 'marine sponges'

... Sea urchins synthesize flexible ceramics … and some marine sponges form fracture-resistant glass ... Consider red abalone, the largest of California’s marine snails, with a large oval shell that coastal ...

... the evolution of the nerve cell by looking for pre-cursors in, of all places, the marine sponge. "Sponges have one of the most ancient lineages and don't have nerve cells," Professor Degnan said. ...

... methods Prof. Ilan has perfected can now be used by other scientists developing pharmaceuticals from marine sponges. "Our research is unique in that we take both an agricultural and microbiological ...

No matter how sophisticated modern medicine becomes, common ailments like fungal infections can outrun the best of the world's antibiotics. In people with compromised immune systems (like premature ...

Pateamine A (PatA), a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may ...