While not the most attractive of ocean creatures, sea sponges have both a history and a future in scientific research, explains Dr Michael Ellwood.
A new route to a complex sea sponge biomolecule with promising anti-tumour properties hits the target in just nine steps
Research has found that sea sponges are at risk from global warming, as their symbiotic relationship with microbes breaks down at 33 degrees Celsius.
Research has found that sea sponges are at risk from global warming, as their symbiotic relationship with microbes breaks down at 33 degrees Celsius.
Research has found that sea sponges are at risk from global warming, as their symbiotic relationship with microbes breaks down at 33 degrees Celsius.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A compound from a sea sponge was able to reverse antibiotic resistance in several strains of bacteria, making once-resistant strains succumb to readily available antibiotics, U.S. ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to sex, sea sponges are certainly not monogamous. But, thanks to a project based at the Heron Island Research Station, UQ researchers will uncover whether the marine ...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The gunk fouling parts of Mission Bay south of San Diego has proved to be dead sea sponges, health department officials said.
Some bottlenose dolphins use sea sponges to forage for fish on the ocean floor, perhaps passing the behavior on as a social tradition
Fossil steroids show that sponges were thriving about a hundred million years before the evolutionary growth spurt known as the Cambrian explosion, a new study says.
Researchers have found that young sea sponges swim towards light and 'remember' its location, despite having no brain or nervous system.
Researchers have found that young sea sponges swim towards light and 'remember' its location, despite having no brain or nervous system.
Researchers have found that sea sponges produce stem cells able to turn into any cell type – not just when young, but throughout life.
A New Zealand researcher has developed a natural marine product from sea sponges that could be used during chemotherapy as a successful anti-cancer drug.
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Natural Chemical from Sea Sponges Induces Death in Cancer Cells via Unusual Pathway
A chemical called candidaspongiolide (CAN) inhibits protein ...
