Rebecca Vega Thurber: The Coral Doctor

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[...] after giving a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about herpes-like viruses in corals, that's what happened to Rebecca Vega Thurber, theri a marine biology postdoc' Her findings were mentioned on Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report, where the comedian called coral reefs the sluts of the sea. Vega Thurber notes that the virus she found "is very distantly related to herpes viruses, but that's its closest relative based on the [SEED and GenBank] databases."

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Rebecca Vega Thurber: The Coral Doctor

It's not every day that a biologist's work makes it on to Comedy Central. But after giving a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about herpes-like viruses in cor...

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