TheThe New Yorker, wrote an article titled "Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes," highlighting the pioneering use of BMCs and how they are a tailored probiotic cocktail to protect marine ecosystems.

While much of the investigative piece details how rising global temperatures are fueling the rapid spread of dangerous pathogenic fungi and "flesh-eating" bacteria like Vibrio vulnificus, Prof Peixoto’s research is described as a proactive effort to leverage the microscopic world to save dying ecosystems—specifically, coral reefs.

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