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Protecting Marine Life, One DNA Sequence at a Time

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Until recently, if you wanted to study the ocean you had to actually get into the ocean. But big advances in genetic testing have revolutionized efforts to protect marine life in the waters off California, where DNA sequencing allows biologists to study fish and whales without ever having seen them.

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