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An open-air “nursery” outside the main Wrigley Institute research building is where USC professor Dennis Hedgecock grows the oysters he breeds and crosses in a lab inside. Seawater is pumped into bins, which hold oyster seeds that are about the size of a shirt button. Hedgecock compares a meaty hybrid oyster at right with an inbred oyster of the same age. (Credit: Philip Channing/University of Southern California)
USC (US)—On a coastal flat in the Pacific Northwest, marine biologists from the University of Southern California are pinning their hopes on the quest for bigger and faster-growing oysters as a way to examine the pressing nutritional needs of an increasingly crowded planet. Continue…
