"Coral on a Chip" Cracks Coral Mysteries
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 16:20
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 at the Weizmann Institute of Science 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.