Sea sponges offer hope for new medicines

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—Flinders University researcher Dr Jan Bekker is on a mission to chemically fingerprint South Australia's marine sponges, with the wider aim of identifying new compounds that could ultimately play an important role in the fight against cancer and infectious diseases.

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