Scientists from WHOI and the University of Delaware recovered and analyzed messenger RNA from a sediment core collected by the ship JOIDES Resolution in 2002 during Leg 201 of the Ocean Drilling Program. (Courtesy of the Ocean Drilling Program)

Scientists from WHOI and the University of Delaware recovered and analyzed messenger RNA from a sediment core collected by the ship JOIDES Resolution in 2002 during Leg 201 of the Ocean Drilling Program. (Courtesy of the Ocean Drilling Program)