The places where biochemists go

This issue dives deep (I couldn’t resist) into the world of marine biotechnology and its associated biochemistry. I’ve always been fascinated by the undersea work of Professor Marcel Jaspars, and was thrilled when he agreed to write for this issue about his work in the discovery of new pharmaceuticals. It’s not often you uncover a link between diving, chemistry, biology and tackling disease! I’ve been taught since school that ‘we know less about what exists under the sea than we do about the surface of the Moon and Mars’ and from the content we gathered for this issue that theory still seems to hold true today, particularly when you are looking at the molecular level