Blistering Barnacles – Bryostatin 2

Harvard University chemists have devised the first synthetic route to the potential anticancer drug bryostatin 2, which could also make it easier to produce the archetypal member of the group bryostatin 1 made as a defense chemical by marine barnacles.
The first bryostatin was discovered by George Pettit and his team at Cancer Research Institute at [...]

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