1/5/13: Oceans & Coasts: Tools for Ocean Explorers
To COMPLETE this quest, visit one or more of the Web sites listed above, then produce a Creative Reflection that explains at least one way that ocean exploration might be personally important to you. The creative reflection must be attached to your completion button.
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Ocean exploration can benefit our healthcare programs. Organisms at hydrothermal vents with unique forms of primary and secondary metabolism represent an untapped potential source of new types of natural products with new biological mechanisms of action. Natural products chemists have begun to evaluate recently discovered deep-sea vent organisms as a source of small molecule natural products with medicinally-relevant properties. As a person who is interested in healthcare, ocean exploration is significant for me because it could lead to further breakthroughs and discoveries of new medines that could help us. Diverse invertebrate vent communities consist of arthropods (crustaceans), mollusks (e.g., clams) and annelids (worms) as well as cnidarians, chordates and sponges can assist us discover new vaccines and cure many diseases. In addition, it is interesting how invertebrates produce natural products that are eventually made into helpful medicines.
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Ocean exploration can benefit our healthcare programs. Organisms at hydrothermal vents with unique forms of primary and secondary metabolism represent an untapped potential source of new types of natural products with new biological mechanisms of action. Natural products chemists have begun to evaluate recently discovered deep-sea vent organisms as a source of small molecule natural products with medicinally-relevant properties. As a person who is interested in healthcare, ocean exploration is significant for me because it could lead to further breakthroughs and discoveries of new medines that could help us. Diverse invertebrate vent communities consist of arthropods (crustaceans), mollusks (e.g., clams) and annelids (worms) as well as cnidarians, chordates and sponges can assist us discover new vaccines and cure many diseases. In addition, it is interesting how invertebrates produce natural products that are eventually made into helpful medicines.