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Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.

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Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

October 2012

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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.

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Fan Sponge

July 2011

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