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Scientists discover dynamic microbial life in coastal sediments

David Emerson, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory, collects samples from Edgecomb Eddy on the Main Coast. Credit: Fritz Freudenberger, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Bigelow Laboratory Scientists advances stimulating methods for linking the activities of individual microorganisms to their own genetic codes, offering the first application of an approach to sediment. Their findings were recently published in the…