Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Scripps Oceanography professor Brad Moore scours the oceans in search of the chemical building blocks for what could become life-saving drugs. In this episode of Wavelengths, Moore describes for Scripps alumna Kate Furby how organisms such as marine bacteria and common seaweeds talk to each other through chemistry. Learning that language allows scientists to replicate these creatures' self-preservation traits to create medicines.

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