Florida's seas may offer cancer cure

June 17, 2006

(AP) -- Biomedical researchers who dove down nearly 3,000 feet to search a newly-discovered coral reef found treasures they say may help doctors fight cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses.

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