Our Little Green Lungs

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Jan 8, 2010 10:12 PMNov 20, 2019 3:50 AM
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In my latest podcast, I speak to Penny Chisholm, an MIT microbiologist who studies the marine microbes that make a lot of the oxygen on which we survive, and who sees the ocean as a giant sea of virus-shuffled genes for harvesting sunlight. Check it out.

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