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Cancer cures hunt taps jungles and seas worldwide
New York AP reports a five year project by government scientists to collect jungle plants and marine organisms for cancer research. Submersibles and field collectors in Ecuador Colombia Africa and the Caribbean gather leaves roots sponges and sea life for NCI testing in Frederick Maryland. Researchers stress preserving habitat as rain forests vanish may erase potential cures.
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New York
South Pacific
Ecuador
Colombia
National Cancer Institute
Nature
NCI
England
Michael Balick
New York Botanical Garden
Institute
Gordon Cragg
Cragg
Caribbean
Janice Thompson
Thompson
Balick
Soejarto
University of Illinois
Amazon
Ghillean Prance
Douglas Daly
Central America
Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis
Marshall Crosby
Crosby
SeaPharm Inc
Princeton
N.J
Richard Vogt
SeaPharm
Galapagos Islands
South Atlantic
Bahamas
Australian
Great Barrier Reef
NCI Laboratories
Frederick, Md