A Blue-Green Algae Tof Fight Cancer

In BioMalaysia 2007, one paper in Biotechnology Business, has raised a flag for Malaysian. An algae planting. Universiti Sains Malaysia has started a research on algae for drug discovery.

The new findings on algae research is to fight cancer. found form blue-green algae from South Pacific. Dr Dennis Carson of UCSD Cancer Center, at University of California, San Diego.

The ScA compound was found in the cyanobacteria L. Majuscula, also known as "mermaid's hair," gathered off the coast of Fiji in the South Pacific by the laboratory of William Gerwick at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A diverse team of researchers from UCSD's Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Scripps worked to identify, screen and test marine compounds in vitro and in vivo. They found that ScA inhibits neovascularization, the formation of blood vessels that feed tumors, and also had a direct impact on tumor cell proliferation

Novel Highly Potent Anticancer Drug From The Sea Identified

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University of California - San Diego (2008, February 11). Novel Highly Potent Anticancer Drug From The Sea Identified. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 12, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/02/080211172554.htm