Sponges, not just their microbes, make biologically potent compounds (IMAGE)

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Sponges, not just their microbes, make biologically potent compounds

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Axinella sponges (above), not their symbiotic bacteria, manufacture a family of potentially useful compounds.

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Kayla Wilson

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