Scripps Institution of Oceanography
researchers describe the deep sea as an "untapped evolutionary engine," reporting a dataset of 500 million unique genes from deep-ocean sampling that vastly undersamples the ocean's true genetic diversity relative to terrestrial environments.
- Country
- United States
Operating
Deep-sea genomic biodiscovery research; 500-million-gene dataset (2026)
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Coverage
| CN | EU | US | |
|---|---|---|---|
| marine-biotech | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Regulatorsun-doalosepa
Technologies
| Name | Cluster | Risk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine genomic prospecting & the BBNJ treaty | marine-biotech | Medium | → |
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