The white stuff: Marine lab team seeks to understand coral bleaching

With technology similar to that used by physicians to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, researchers from six institutions - including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - working at the Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) in Charleston, S.C., are studying the metabolic activity of a pathogen shown to cause coral bleaching, a serious threat to undersea reef ecosystems worldwide...

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