Stanford scientists rescue bleached corals in seven weeks via clone contact

Stanford researchers restored bleached corals by briefly placing them in contact with healthy clones, achieving full recovery in seven weeks. In some cases five days of contact sufficed, as beneficial algae entered the tissue and divided ten times faster than in wild corals.

• Full recovery of bleached corals took seven weeks
• Five to seven days of contact with a healthy clone was enough
• Algae doubled every four days, ten times faster than in the wild
• Findings published October 14 in Science Advances