The ocean's most abundant "loner" microbe has a sticky second life
October 20, 2026
October 20, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 20 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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The ocean's most abundant "loner" microbe has a sticky second life
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The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells -- phytoplankton -- drifting in the surface of the ocean. Among them is Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the seas. It single-handedly . . .
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The ocean's most abundant "loner" microbe has a sticky second life
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The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells -- phytoplankton -- drifting in the surface of the ocean. Among them is Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the seas. It single-handedly . . .