'Coral on a chip' cracks coral mysteries
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 20:50
in Biology & Nature
The world’s corals are dying, with tremendous effects on climate and ocean health – however, much about why coral dies is still unknown. Now, a team of researchers has created a new experimental platform – a “coral on a chip” – that lets them grow coral in the lab to study the structures’ complicated lives at microscale resolution.