The Portland Press Herald featured the research of University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Emily Pierce, who studies eDNA in water samples. “Environmental DNA (eDNA) is really cool because every organism is shedding it into the environment … Using different techniques, we can discover through this DNA what kind of animals are out there, what kind of algae, plankton, sharks, fish. We can identify all sorts of different species with just a single water sample,” Pierce said.
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