Russian scientists from the Far Eastern Federal University, the GB Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and the AV Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center for Marine Biology have discovered four new steroid substances that target cells for breast cancer and colorectal carcinoma. These compounds were extracted from the sea star ‘Ceramaster patagonicus’.
As these scientists explain in an article in the journal ‘Marine Drugs‘, these compounds may be responsible in the body of starfish...