Yale Chemists Recreate a Sea-Sponge Molecule With Big Cancer-Fighting Potential

Image caption: This illustration depicts the synthetic chemistry solution (left) for recreating a cancer-fighting molecule found in the marine sponge  Phorbas gukhulensis. Image credit: Vaani Gupta. Article by Tudor Tarita. ZME Science – November 18, 2025. Yale News article: Soaking up the anti-cancer properties of a South Korean sea sponge. Research article: Science.

In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make it. Now, a team at Yale has finally succeeded. Their success, published in Science, is more than just the answer to a puzzling chemical riddle. It offers a compound with notable anticancer potential. […]

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