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Compounds that marine creatures make to defend themselves could yield lifesaving medicines

Scientists from Boston University, Harvard Medical School and others find new microbes in the deep sea that cannot be detected by human immune cells.

Date Time Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity In the largest and deepest marine protected area in the world, a team of ocean experts peered over 3,000 meters below the surface to find new types of microbial organisms that people would have never encountered before. These microbes-types of bacteria-could now open up doors to new ways of understanding how the immune system responds to completely foreign invaders. A collaborative study between the Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab at Boston University, the Kagan Lab at the Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, the gove...