Nanobiotech engineering for future coral reefs
Advances in bioengineering and nanotechnology are revolutionizing how we approach problems deemed unsolvable only a decade ago. Nanotechnology has transformed biomedicine, agriculture, and energy science, with broad translational capacity to natural systems. Coral reef ecosystems provide immense biodiversity and economic value but are being degraded at an unprecedented rate, triggering calls for human interventions such as those that have been applied to biomedical systems. Here, we propose that next-generation nanobiotechnology (nanocarriers, nanobiosensors, 3D bioprinting) can be leveraged to provide solutions for the persistence of future reefs.