About seven miles off the marshy Louisiana coast, oil-rig platforms rise like skyscrapers from the heaving waters of the Gulf of Mexico's ``oil patch.''
In this 64,000-square-mile stretch of shallow ...........
From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments.
Writer Kevin Krajick went to sea, journeying out..........
Botanists and chemists have long prospected in tropical forests and other terrestrial ecosystems for unusual substances to meet human needs. But the world's oceans, which may contain as many as 2-million undiscovered...........
