Researchers Study How Sea Stars Fight Off Wasting Disease

Sea stars (once known as starfish) have been dying up and down the West Coast of the United States for several years from a wasting disease and scientists are just learning how they are responding to the disease.
University of Texas at Arlington graduate student Lauren Fuess, a Ph.D. candidate in quantitative biology, led a study to find out how the immune systems of sea stars have responded to a wasting disease that has decimated 20 different sea star species. 

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