In a TEDx talk recently released, MIT postdoc and molecular and marine biologist Melissa Garren speaks about her work using microfluidic technology to understand the living ecosystem of coral reefs.
Given our own extensive Red Sea research,
The Lens thought the community might find this presentation of interest. An average teaspoon of ocean water contains five million bacteria and fifty million viruses – and yet we are just starting to discover how these “invisible engineers” control our ocean’s chemistry.