By Amirah Al Idrus Nearly two years ago, Nessan Bermingham, Ph.D., handed the reins of Intellia Therapeutics over to John Leonard, M.D., the R&D chief who had built the company alongside him. After a break, he landed at Atlas Venture, the VC firm that helped launch Intellia in 2014 and that is now debuting Korro Bio, Bermingham’s latest
By Gabriel Popkin The heat-trapping gases humans release into the air are warming the planet. But humble soil-dwelling bacteria and fungi also release heat-trapping gases, and those gases could determine just how hot it gets. Now new research adds to the worry that the microbes will make climate change worse. Soil microbes digest dead plants
In this Twitter thread, Navish Wadhwa of Harvard tells a wonderful story of scientific discovery, including crucial assistance at just the right time from Rob Phillips of CalTech, whom Navish met in the MBL Physiology course. Wadhwa’s paper recently received the Meselson Prize for “the most beautiful experiment of the year,” given annually by Harvard’s
That rumble of excited conversation on campus last week was the sound of 102 University of Chicago graduate students engaged in a boot camp on quantitative and professional skills for biological scientists. First-year students in the Division of Biological Sciences participated in the QBio@MBL Bootcamp, working hard while having time to explore the magnificent natural
By Diana Kenney A team from UChicago Medicine is in the midst of making a video about research collaborations between MBL’s Mitchell Sogin and UChicago’s Eugene Chang, an expert on host-microbe interactions in the human digestive tract and related diseases. Sogin is an innovator in identifying microbial populations — whether they be from the ocean
When Jack Levin and Frederik Bang studied blood clotting in the horseshoe crab at the MBL in the 1960s, they had no idea their research would eventually lead to the development and commercialization of a globally used test for detecting bacterial contamination in medical settings. In recognition of their unexpected and extraordinary contribution to society,
MBL Associate Scientist Michael Shribak and Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal collaborated on this study, reported in the August issue of The Biological Bulletin, which features marine biology research. The Biological Bulletin is published by the Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Chicago Press. Newswise — Writers know the power of the pen, but scientists
The partnership between MBL and commercial vendors is critical to the success of the MBL’s courses, particularly the Advanced Research Training Courses. Starting with four vendors in 1970, this partnership has grown to 155 vendors loaning over $24 million in equipment, software, and supplies each year, effectively making MBL one of the largest demo centers
Peering inside marine organisms with high-powered microscopes: The students in Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences are amazed! Absolutely gorgeous movie of a crustacean (we think) captured with phase contrast! Looks like a grand central station inside it! @MBLScience @zeiss_micro pic.twitter.com/Q8byurJAFJ — Optical Microscopy (@OMIBS_MBL) August 22, 2019
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