Scientists 'Unlock' Mystery of Creating Cultured Pearls from the Queen Conch

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 08:42 in Biology & Nature

In their natural form, conch pearls are among the rarest pearls in the world. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded and non-beaded high-quality cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by scientists from FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.

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