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    Experts Chime in on Coral Cryopreservation

    Coral Cryopreservation is applying human fertility techniques in an effort to save mother nature’s beautiful coral reefs through future sexual reporoduction. For most of us a serious question remains, how do they do it? In this Podcast with WAMU 88.5, Mary Hagedorn and  Mike Henley of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park discuss this large undertaking and [...]

    Cryogenically Frozen Coral for the Future?

    The London Zoological society is now in the initial planning stages of a world “coral cryobank”, a short hand reference for the cryogenic technology they’ll use to freeze numerous coral species to preserve them for the future. This is possible thanks to the work of Craig Downs of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory who found a [...]