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Coral Reefs: Medicine Chests of the Sea

1. History of using Ocean

2. Microbial Resistance

3. Current Medical Uses

#1

History of Using the Ocean

- makes marine bioprospecting a necessity

- resistance to treatments or prevention

- because of evolution, misuse, and overuse of medicines

#3

Current Medical Uses

- 300 to 400 times more likely to discover potential medicines in the ocean

- 40 to 50% of medicines currently in use come from natural products

In

Conclusion

- 6 FDA approved prescriptions

- sunscreen from coral

- bone grafting

#2

Microbial

Resistance

- used for generations

- 14th Century Eastern cultures recognized healing compounds and natural healing properties of coral

- China, Japan, Taiwan using seahorse extractions

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