Ocean Sponges Research Paper

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Ocean sponges are a simple organism that has a single layer of flagellated cells that make the water flow throughout the body. The uses of ocean sponges are endless. In the 1950s they are used for anti-viral and anti-cancer drugs. Sponges also might be used for medications in the future. Dr. Jan Bekker from Flanders University, his mission is to chemically fingerprint South Australia’s marine sponges. He is thinking that is may fight against cancer. The Research Associate at Flinders Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development has discovered that a large number of chemicals are being found from 70 different sea sponges. When they use a computer platform that distinguishes know compounds that are common to all sponges from the ones that haven’t