{"id":432166,"date":"2026-10-19T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:26:10","slug":"usf-research-team-uses-new-tool-to-identify-harmful-algal-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432166\/","title":{"rendered":"USF research team uses new tool to identify harmful algal blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 19, 2026 &#8211; Researchers at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University have &#8220;demonstrated that a promising DNA sequencing tool can rapidly identify harmful algae in coastal waters,&#8221; according to a prepared statement. The scientists utilized the Oxford Nanopore MinION in a study published in the PLOS Water journal. Harmful agal bloom species were identified at 20 sites across Florida\u2019s Indian River Lagoon. The researchers &#8220;found 11 harmful algal bloom species, including species responsible for brown and red tides, with some at very low concentrations.&#8221; For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/health\/public-health\/news\/2026\/research-team-uses-new-tool-to-define-and-predict-harmful-algal-blooms.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.\u00a0<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 19, 2026 &#8211; Researchers at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University have &#8220;demonstrated that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-432166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}