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Doherty professor studies marine organisms
03-07-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)In work that will improve our understanding of the marine microorganisms that are essential to healthy oceans, Roman Stocker is using microfluidics to study these organisms in the lab under conditions close to what they experience in the wild.
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