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This Section, “Biomaterials of Marine Origin”, of Marine Drugs aims to provide a platform for the rapid publication of works concerning marine-derived biomaterials and their applications in medical or related fields.

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Potential topics include, but are n...

This Section of Marine Drugs is open to receiving papers that report the application of advanced technologies to living organisms from marine resources in drug discovery and production.

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• Conservation of marine resources and ecosystems in the sustainable expl...

This section of Marine Drugs welcomes marine chemoecological studies with strong relevance to marine natural product and drug discovery.

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• Chemical ecology of marine organisms and marine drug discovery
• Chemical interactions between marine organisms...

Considering that oceans cover approximately 70% of our planet, there are huge untapped marine resources available for the discovery of future therapeutic applications. For example, several marine drugs have been shown to affect basically all hallmarks of cancer and even to contribute to epigeneti...

This section of Marine Drugs aims to provide a comprehensive and advanced publication platform for chemical and/or pharmacological studies on marine-derived toxins.

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• Marine toxins inspiring new drugs
• Venoms from marine animals
• Toxins from...

This Section of Marine Drugs is open to receiving papers reporting research about the marine-derived ingredients and bio-products as cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, functional foods, and nutritional supplements.

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• Marine-derived ingredients used in cosmetic p...

This Section of Marine Drugs focuses on novel articles and reviews reporting on the isolation, structure elucidation and bioactivity assays of natural products from the marine resources, including marine-derived macro- and microorganisms as well as marine plants (e.g., algae, seagrasses,...

Marine natural products are generally isolated in small amounts, which are often inadequate for extensive drug screening and, sometimes, even for their full structure characterization Moreover, unaltered natural molecules may possess suboptimal pharmacological properties and thus, in order to suc...