Rebecca Vega Thurber: The coral doctor :The Scientist [2009-08-01]


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	By Jef Akst

Rebecca Vega Thurber: The coral doctor It’s not every day that a biologist’s work makes it on to Comedy Central. But after giving a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about herpes-like viruses in corals, that’s what happened to Rebecca Vega Thurber, then a marine biology postdoc.1 Her findings were mentioned on Stephen