By Diana Kenney
An odd-looking relative of the shark, the little skate, is emerging as an important genetic system for illuminating the evolution and development of vertebrates, including us.
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By Sarah Lawhun
Karen Crawford, a 2018 Whitman Fellow from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, studies the Hawaiian bobtail squid and the striped pyjama squid, defining methods for editing cephalopod embryos and gaining understanding of cephalopod development, genetics, and evolution.
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By Sarah Lawhun
MBL Senior Scientist Hilary Morrison, who specializes in DNA sequencing technology, contributes to a study showing that what a mother eats during pregnancy influences the microbiome of her infant’s digestive tract.
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By Diana Kenney
How do you keep a live organism from creating a blur of movement or even escaping the microscope’s field of view, without perturbing the very biological process you want to study? Dirk Albrecht of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Erik Edsinger of MBL publish a solution in Nature Communications Biology.
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By Sarah Lawhun
University of Cambridge scientist and 2018 Whitman Center Fellow Dr. Victoria A. Sleight is exploring how mollusks create their shells — a process called biomineralization — to understand its molecular pathways and evolution, which remain incomplete to scientists.
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