When it Comes to Going Green, These N.C. Scientists are Singing the Blues

This year scientists in North Carolina have made a resolution to embrace a new earth-friendly trend — going Blue. This new charge is coming out of MARBIONC (Marine Biotechnology in North Carolina), one of the country’s newest business incubators that discovers, develops and markets new products and technologies derived from the sea. “The ocean holds the key to renewable energy, environmentally friendly cosmetics, renewable seafood sources, and even new treatments for diseases,” adds Jeffrey Wright, Ph.D., Principal and Director of Research of MARBIONC. According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 60 percent of the world’s marine life is over-fished. The scientists at MARBIONC are cultivating black sea bass and southern flounder in on-shore tanks, creating a renewable food source that eliminates the destructive in-ocean farming practices that put harmful waste back into the environment. MARBIONC has the nation’s largest collection of marine microorganisms whose land-based cousins account for 70 percent of all antibiotics in existence. Most recently, they patented a treatment for cystic fibrosis with a molecule derived from Florida Red Tide.

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