Recuerdos aquellos de cuando SeaPharm Inc ... siempre con el tiempo se llega a ver el bosque .
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As for Yondelis, the seeds of its development were sewn back in 1967, when researchers at the University of Miami found that a compound in sea squirts stopped the growth of cancer tumors in nine of 10 mice.
But the discovery had little practical application until scientists could ``crack the structure'' of the compound. Amy Wright, a research professor at FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, was involved in doing just that when she was a researcher at a little company called Seapharm Inc. Years later, Yondelis was the result.
``The ocean is full of things to investigate,'' Luesch said. ``We have only scratched
the surface . . . The opportunities for marine drug discovery are tremendous. I'm certainly a believer.''