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A look into a mighty marine microbe

Prochlorococcus is a tiny plant like bacteria which is responsible for about 5 percent of all photosynthesis on the planet. Penny Chisholm is an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was part of the group that discovered the marine microorganism almost 30 years ago and her lab is dedicated to studying the organism today.