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Buried in San Diego County’s lagoons are centuries worth of carbon, cached in muddy stockpiles that scientists say could help combat climate change.
Recently, scientists with the conservation organization Wildcoast and Scripps Institution of Oceanography started studying how much carbon coastal wetlands can capture, and how to restore these environments to boost that capacity.
“They are the best ecosystems on the planet for taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it in the ground for a long time,” said Matt Costa, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, as he took sediment samples from a corner of San Dieguito Lagoon on an overcast day earlier this month.
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Marine Natural Products Identified with Potential to Treat Lethal RNA Viruses
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January 8, 2021
Three RNA virus families have been responsible for epidemics and pandemics throughout recorded human history. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, have broken down the biology, genomic makeup, life histories, and key drug targets of these three viral families. The authors also identified structurally diverse natural compounds in the marine ecology that could be used to develop antiviral therapeutics with the potential to disrupt the spread of these notorious viruses and highlight possible treatment strategies.
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