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The article reports on the efforts of the Smithsonian's National Zoo, Washington, D.C. to save microscopic threatened coral species through artificial insemination and captive breeding. The zoo recently acquired 12,000 new microscopic Elkhorn coral larvae to raise. National Zoo reproductive scientist Dr. Mary Hagedorn is also working in collaboration with Sexual Coral Reproduction to create a genome resource bank which will help preserve the genetic diversity of coral.