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Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
For millennia, humans have looked to the sea to find medicine. Today, medical treatments that come from the ocean have been clinically approved for pain, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease, and over a dozen more are in clinical trials. In this episode of Tiny Matters, Sam and Deboki are tackling marine natural products—things like proteins, fats, and other molecules that aquatic organisms produce—that humans are hoping to use to treat the diseases that plague us. Links to the Tiny Show & Tell stories are here and here.
Released:
Mar 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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