{"id":15463,"date":"2026-04-17T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/how-edna-technology-is-changing-the-game-for-protecting-ocean-species-marine-life\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:40:06","slug":"how-edna-technology-is-changing-the-game-for-protecting-ocean-species-marine-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/how-edna-technology-is-changing-the-game-for-protecting-ocean-species-marine-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How eDNA technology is changing the game for protecting ocean species | Marine life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:500\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">H<\/span>anging over the side of the boat, Nahi El Bar Jiyed scoops up a jug of sea water, then carefully pours it into a large syringe. While the sample may seem ordinary, to the biologist it\u2019s a trove of secrets: the DNA of every living creature swimming below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He presses the water sample through a filter about the size of his hand, which captures the DNA fragments, then repeats the process several more times. Meters away, a sea turtle emerges for a breath then retreats to the seagrass meadow below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWithout disturbing the environment, we can take a sample that tells us exactly what was at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jun\/12\/this-will-finally-lift-the-veil-how-edna-can-see-the-oceans-hidden-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanging over the side of the boat, Nahi El Bar Jiyed scoops up a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}