Microbiome of anticancer compound-producing marine invertebrate

Could the cure for melanoma – the most dangerous type of skin cancer — be a compound derived from a marine invertebrate that lives at the bottom of the ocean? A group of scientists think so, and are looking to the microbiome of an Antarctic ascidian called Synoicum adareanum to better understand the possibilities for development of a melanoma-specific drug.

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