Boosting ocean life's resilience to human impact - a conversation with Azul Bio

Back to Blue’s lead editor, Naka Kondo speaks to Ben Alva, the founder of Azul Bio, a startup developing microbiome-based treatments and probiotics from nature that give ocean life

immunity to human impact, such as coral resilience. They are planning their first pilot in November.


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