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Neptune's Medicine Chest
To Scripps researcher Bill Fenical, the oceans are a tantalizing trove of potential anti-cancer drugs. It's all about the chemistry, he says.
LA JOLLA — You might never hear of Bill Fenical again. In the years ahead, though, you could owe him some of your good health. Perhaps your life.
Fenical probably won't join the ranks of those Communications Age nobles who transform convenience gadgetry and technological gewgaws into inconceivable wealth. Yet this chemist is hot on the trail of discoveries far more tantalizing.
William — "call me Bill" — Fenical, PhD, is out to cure cancer. Maybe prevent cancer.
Bill Fenical is a pioneer in an effort to beat other diseases that are rapidly — alarmingly — developing resistance to everything in the world's antibiotic medicine chest.
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