Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap carbon emissions — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.
He and his colleagues, including OSU associate microbiology professor Virginia Rich and Damien Eveillard of the Tara Oceans Consortium, have identified 128 viruses that include the genes they were looking for — a number that "shocked" Sullivan, he said during the conference.
Indeed, the community metabolic modeling, as Eveillard's system is called, is geared towards looking into any unintended potential consequences of bio-hacking the oceans could create.
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