SINGAPORE - To breathe life into a dying reef, scientists usually start by raising an army of clones.
They retrieve coral fragments, which are clones of the animals they were taken from, grow them in a laboratory until they reach a suitable size, and then transplant them onto a degraded reef, where they spread and grow.
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