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 Sea organisms from shipwreck could be real treasure to researchers
Smithsgold - 11/30/2014 3:04 PM
Category: General
Replies: 1
dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2014/11/23/0...scientific-gold.html

Sea organisms from shipwreck could be real treasure to researchers

The greatest treasure of all in the SS Central America shipwreck off the South Carolina coast might not be gold bars and coins worth millions of dollars.

Microscopic organisms in the sediment below the wreck might reap a different kind of treasure — one that could save lives.

That’s the hope of research scientist Michael Lawman, whose Tampa biotech company Morphogenesis is sifting through the sediment in hopes of finding microorganisms that could one day help treat cancer and other diseases
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Eric_R - 11/30/2014 5:32 PM
If they took all the money from selling the treasure I bet we could get close to a cure for something.