Two undergraduate reseachers at MBL this summer, Lili Rangel-Parra of Appalacian State University and William Ramos of University of Chicago, and graduate student researcher Loranzie Rogers of University of Minnesota, Duluth, are profiled in The Falmouth Enterprise. By Emily Rogers Every summer, students come to the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to
By Amelia Nierenberg Globe Correspondent WOODS HOLE — On the ground floor of the Marine Biology Laboratory, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco bent over a fishy-smelling tank. One of the laboratory’s managers, David Remsen, lifted a small, dripping egg sack from the water and held it up to the flashlight on his
Note: This article is illustrated by many images and videos taken in the MBL Embryology Course and features the research of Nicole King of University of California, Berkeley, who will become co-director of the MBL Physiology Course in 2019. By Elizabeth Pennisi Science/AAAS Billions of years ago, life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to
Note: Tara Haelle was a 2018 fellow in the MBL Logan Science Journalism Program. .entry-header By Tara Haelle For the Association of Health Care Journalists It’s not difficult to understand why clinical trials are so incredibly expensive. There’s the recruitment of the participants and their compensation, the cost of the drugs themselves, the work that
.entry-header Video Produced by Luke Groskin Article by Johanna Mayer Bret Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts the “cephalopod empire.” The lab houses roughly 2,000 to 3,000 cephalopods—likely the largest collection of cephalopods of any research laboratory. But it might not be that way
MBL Hibbitt Fellow Caroline Albertin comments on the controversial idea that an influx of cosmic viruses seeded Earth with the genetic material for many species, as evidenced by the octopus genome. Albertin was on the team that sequenced the first octopus genome in 2015. By Sara Chodosh We have to stop taking away Mother Nature’s
By Andrea F. Carter Woods Hole scientists got some acting tips from actor Alan Alda to better communicate science to the public at a workshop on April 26. The Falmouth STEM Boosters, a parent group that works to build stronger connections between the science community and Falmouth Public Schools, hosted the event with the Alan
By Andrea F. Carter A lesser-known coral found in Cape Cod’s cold waters could offer clues on how the organism can cope with environmental stresses that lead to bleaching. The Cape’s local coral, Astrangia poculata, is a non-reef-building coral that can thrive in very warm waters or cold New England winter waters. Its range spans
This Nature/PBS video features Nipam Patel’s research on the nanoscale wing structures that give the morpho butterfly its brilliant blue. Patel, of University of California, Berkeley, is a faculty member in and former co-director of the MBL Embryology Course.
A paradigm-shifting observation in the MBL Physiology course about how cells organize is described in a Nature feature this week. The discovery was made in 2008 by Physiology course faculty Anthony Hyman, teaching assistant Clifford Brangwynne, and other course participants including University of Chicago student David Courson. By Eli Dolgin When David Courson and Lindsay