Scientists 'Unlock' Mystery of Creating Cultured Pearls From the Queen Conch
U.S. Newswire › November 06, 2009
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Scientists 'Unlock' Mystery of Creating Cultured Pearls From the Queen Conch
BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful--until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded (nucleated) and non-beaded cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by scientists from Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). W...
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