Africa: What a Seawater Sample Can Tell Scientists About Ocean Health
The rollout will expand to 30 marine protected areas and aims to collect about 3,000 samples by 2028, UNESCO said.
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Africa: What a Seawater Sample Can Tell Scientists About Ocean Health
UNESCO is growing its environmental DNA, or eDNA, expedition programme. This ambitious and cost-effective project can give usable ocean data in a couple of weeks using a small number of seawater samples collected by citizen scientists.
What a Seawater Sample Can Tell Scientists About Ocean Health
UNESCO is growing its environmental DNA, or eDNA, expedition programme. This ambitious and cost-effective project can give usable ocean data in a couple of weeks using a small number of seawater samples collected by citizen scientists.
The DNAa, that is, the genetic material left by living organisms in their environment, can be collected directly in a column of water.
The objective of the project "DNA Expediciones" is to collect 3,000 samples of sea water by 2028.
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