California biomedical research facility harnesses power of ocean creature

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Think medical breakthrough, and you’re apt to picture a high-tech lab with gleaming steel equipment. But medical advances can also come from nature, such as the seaside.

On a rocky strip of land in Port Hueneme in Southern California is a unique medical facility. Researchers have found a way to grow an unusual marine mollusk that may play a major role in future vaccines.

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