From+Marine+Ecology+to+Drug+Discovery

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Alice Gengler From Marine Ecology to Drug Discovery Fiji is one of the most coveted places in the world for ecological research, well not on Fiji but in the water around it. This article focuses on some of the fantastic discoveries ecological researchers have made through underwater organism especially those found in remote and unexplored coral reefs. It also focuses on the conditions researchers had to deal with. What these researchers do is very significant. The marine organisms they discover can be used to make possible medicines. For example, some of the 33 previously unknown bioactive molecules from the red seaweed Callophycus show potent activities in anti-cancer, antibacterial, and anti-malaria assays. Based on how much more advanced technology is now than three centuries ago we can now get to more places than we could before and go deeper into a world’s oceans than we could before. As time keeps passing by technology and our knowledge of the world will continue to get more advanced. So researchers will continue to discover more organisms with medicine capabilities. In this essay when he talks about prey species being able to turn production of defensive traits off and on as needed for different enemies reminds me of G0 in Interphase. G0 is when cells stop dividing but they can turn back on when they are needed to perform a job.