Probiotic Can Slow Disease on Coral Reefs: They Have Microbiomes That Benefit, Like Humans

A new study from researchers at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History demonstrated how a probiotic could save the Caribbean’s at-risk coral. The compound slowed the spread of a deadly disease which began damaging coral in Florida in 2014 and has since rapidly spread south, throughout the Caribbean. The study documents 6 years of testing […] The post Probiotic Can Slow Disease on Coral Reefs: They Have Microbiomes That Benefit, Like Humans appeared first on Good News Network.

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