MBL Ecosystems Center scientists Jim Tang and Faming Wang are among the authors of this research, which was conducted at a Cape Cod salt marsh. By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY– Experts consider salt marshes foot soldiers in the battle against climate change: In the U.S. Northeast alone, they sop up enough carbon every year
By Hannah Knighton Photos by Megan Costello More than 1,500 people flocked to the fifth annual Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 10. Families roamed the streets of Woods Hole to take part in science demos and hands-on activities hosted by the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NOAA Fisheries (National Oceanic and
By Eric Boodman You’ve swum with one, stepped on one, maybe swallowed one. This unsung invertebrate could teach us about aging WOODS HOLE, Mass. — In case you were wondering, Kristin Gribble is not a basher of fruit flies or roundworms. She wants to be clear: She bears no ill will toward those invertebrates so
By Jeanie Chung Margaret Gardel, the Horace B. Horton Professor in the Department of Physics [at the University of Chicago], found her area of study through a series of serendipitous events. Her graduate research at Harvard focused on filamentous actin, a polymer found within cells in multicellular organisms. In living cells actin drives cell motion
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Filmmaker Rory Kennedy, niece of President John F. Kennedy, screened her documentary about NASA at the MBL this week, vividly recalling the space agency’s six decades of heroic exploration and astonishing discovery. Read more …
An octopus’s garden! WBUR and Science Friday’s video producer Luke Groskin talks all-things cephalopods with Carrie Albertin and Bret Grasse, both from the Marine Biological Laboratory, and aquarist Bill Murphy from the New England Aquarium. This “Cephalopod Week” event was held at WBUR Cityspace on June 24.
Day in and day out for 13 years, scientists slowly dripped fertilizers into a pristine section of salt marsh north of Boston. They were simulating, in a controlled experiment, the pollution that marshes in densely populated areas receive from sewage, lawn fertilizer, and other human sources. By the time they stopped dripping the nutrients —
This is the latest discovery to emerge from the HHMI-MBL Summer Institute, a large, interdisciplinary collaboration held at the MBL between 2013-2017. By Peter Thorley University of Warwick Two proteins that act as a ‘clutch’ in cells to put them in gear and drive our immune response have been identified for the first time. A
MBL Director Nipam Patel took his passion for teaching into the MBL Physiology course this year, showing the students advanced techniques for imaging a new life as it unfolds (as he has done for 19 years – and running! — in the MBL Embryology course). One of the students who leapt at the chance to
Science Friday wrapped up its “eight-day squid-and-kin appreciation extravaganza,” Cephalopod Week, by interviewing MBL Hibbitt Fellow Carrie Albertin, who gives Ira Flatow “a tour of the complex genomes of octopuses, and how understanding cephalopod genetics could lead to greater insights into human health.” … Read more and hear broadcast … Source: Closing Out The Cephalo-Party