Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University confirm that the structure of a sponge— a moist, porous environment—makes it an ideal habitat for microbes. Sponges can even cultivate more bacteria ...

Taking into account the distribution of sponge habitat across the continental shelf to 100 m depth, this constitutes a contribution of 10% to 18% of the total recycled nitrogen flux required from the ...

Deakin University researchers have joined scientists from SeaGen Aquaculture and Gippsland-based biotech company Offshore Biotechnologies to undertake the largest rapid assessment of marine sponge ...