The marine world, due to its phenomenal biodiversity, is a rich natural resource of many biologically active compounds. Many marine organisms live in complex habitats exposed to extreme conditions and, in adapting to new environmental surroundings, they produce a wide variety of primary and secondary metabolites which cannot be found in other organisms. Marine-based bioactive compounds can be d…
Everybody thinks it cannot happen to them. And yet, six million people die of cancer every year. Approximately every fourth citizen of a developed country will be stricken sometime during his life and approximately 400 new incidents emerge per 100,000 people annually. Once considered a mysterious disease, cancer has been eventually revealed to investigators (Trichopoulos and Hunter, 1996). Dise…