Sometimes Nature is the Best Medicine

Written by guest bloggers Prof. Marcel Jaspars and Prof. Rainer Ebel, from the University of Aberdeen
At the University of Aberdeen we have a dedicated team and a brand new $2.5 million dollar laboratory looking at deep sea organisms, like sponges, soft corals and bacteria.  We do this because extreme environments such as the Mariana Trench (10,916 meters below see level) yield unusual and