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Revision as of 17:29, 18 October 2019

GSU iGEM

Coral Reefs by the Numbers

Diversity

25

Percent of marine life depend on coral reefs

Value

375

billion dollars per year in goods and services provided to the world economy

Death

30

Percent of Reefs Lost From Bleaching Events To Date

Our Project

Inspiration & Description

Save The Coral

Using Synthetic Biology to Protect Our Reefs

The inspiration behind our project was the Netflix documentary “Chasing Coral.” At a glance we want to transform the microalgal symbiote of coral, Symbiodinium to overcome the overarching issue of coral bleaching. We first did some research into seeing what causes corals to bleach and consequently die off.

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