Racing against time: Inside a Nahant genome bank’s bid to save marine diversity before it’s lost

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Deadly Pathogen Decimated Sunflower Sea Stars. Look Inside the Lab Working to Bring Them Back by Freezing and Thawing Their Larvae

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...
SFGate

How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...