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Science Centric | 3 November 2009 11:41 GMT
Pateamine A (PatA), a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may reveal yet another anti-cancer mechanism. That's the assessment of Daniel Romo, a Texas A and M chemistry professor, and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University who are pioneers in research involving this novel marine natural product...
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