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Expedition to Antarctica advances research on potential melanoma treatment
- June 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Deep beneath the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, a small marine organism may hold clues to a future cancer treatment. Researchers from USF recently returned from a six-week expedition in one of the most remote environments on Earth to study a species of ascidian, or sea squirt, that contains a bacterium capable of killing melanoma cancer cells.
Originally published at Phys.org