'Test-tube coral babies' may mend reefs
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In this photo, provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Margaret Miller, an ecologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, harvests coral eggs and sperm, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, during a coral spawn in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo, Fla. Miller and a team of researchers are artificially fertilizing eggs and sperm to create coral larvae that is subsequently to be planted on the site of a 1984 ship grounding in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The team hopes the larvae will mature into polyps, thus providing the foundation for growth of new coral. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Bob Care)
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