Dear Colleagues,
“Harvesting Drugs from The Sea” : a review which explain about current issues in marine biotechnology, since many sciencetists (biotechnologists) took deep intention to explore biodiversity from the sea, looking for new natural products inside there as potential candidates for new drugs.
Ocean as the largest part of the World, has huge potency as the sources of many unique chemical compounds, and potential as tremendous candidate from new drugs. Indonesia as Archipelago State has a huge potential of Tropical Marine Resources. Since, 70% of the area are water (Ocean) (5.8 million Km2).
As naturally, marine organisms faced a higher competition in its environment than terestry organism. Secondary metabolites produced higher for survival. Marine biodiversity offer the chemical diversity, thus can developed as potential new drugs.
This enlightmently presentation could be downloaded here.
Keywords : marine biotechnology, secondary metabolites, active compounds, drugs
