3,4-Dihydroxybenzylamine hydrobromide inhibits DNA polymerase activity in melanoma cells and displays growth inhibitory activity in melanoma cell lines with varying degrees of tyrosinase activity.

Oxazolone has been used as a haptenizing agent which can induce an inflammatory reaction in adult zebrafish intestinal tissues and this can be used as a model for gene expression studies of the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Fradiomycin or neomycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic, is first isolated in 1949 from the gram-positive bacillus Streptomyces fradiae.