Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
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How to Make Antimicrobials From Bacteria in Shipworms
Caffeine is a stimulant for humans. That's not why coffee beans make caffeine. The compound we're looking for in a sponge or shipworm microbe might be doing something very different from those organisms than we would want it to do for us. Eric told us he and his lab will start out with DNA sequencing of the bacteria in shipworms to try to distill out the important potential antibiotics they might be producing.
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