UNDERSEA MEDICINES
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLMYSTERIOUS species, which could provide the cure cancer, might be wiped-out by researchers exploring for unknown life in deep seas unit by the sun, the United Nations University is warning. A study has called for international rules on bio-prospecting, so high-tech submarines do not damage sensitive eco-systems that are barely understood. Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly interested in worms, bacteria, clams and other species inhabiting ocean depths exceeding 4,000 metres, in trenches, seamounts and the abyssal plain. Their researchers ...
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