Medicines from marine invertebrates
Issue 343 | Page 27 | Published Dec 2011
Description
This article not only highlights the challenges of sustainably harvesting populations of marine invertebrates for their natural products to fuel the drug discovery pipeline but also describes innovative ways in which some of these challenges have been overcome. Highly biodiverse and fragile marine ecosystems, like their tropical rainforest counterparts, are potentially the pharmacopoeia of the future and must be rigorously conserved.
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