The substance obtained from cyanobacteria of coral reefs can be an ideal basis for the development of new drugs for serious fractures, osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

By some estimates, more than half of the medicines to date are in the Largazole's family, that is, "natural products". Drug compositions are extracted from trees, snails, scorpion venom, soil bacteria, other plants and animals, but so far only a few come from the ocean.

Scientists at Duke University and the University of Florida (USA) and the Korean Research Institute of Chemical Technology (South Korea) have found that substances from coral-reef bacteria have an unusual double effect on damaged or diseased bones, stimulating a process called osteogenesis, which includes growth New bone and restoration of damaged bone. These properties come from proteins called histone deacetylases, which are a kind of regulator for the production of proteins. The study also showed that these bacteria, mixed with collagen and calcium phosphate, help heal broken bones in laboratory mice and rabbits.

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