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Pioneering work that unlocked the genetic secrets of seaweed鈥檚 ability to
soak up heavy metals has won a prize from the Welsh Development Agency. Viola
Sampson, an undergraduate at Cardiff University, identified a gene that makes
the protein that sponges up the heavy metals. 鈥淭his is the first time it has
been found in seaweed,鈥� says Sampson. The finding could lead to a new heavy
metals detector.