Note: This groundbreaking study was a collaboration between five laboratories, including scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory, which hosted much of the research. By Usha Lee McFarling Using Facebook-like algorithms, a bespoke microscope, and hefty doses of patience, a team of scientists has determined the brain structure of one of biology’s most powerful model organisms,
David Mark Welch, director of research at the Marine Biological Laboratory, appeared on this New England Cable Network segment. By NECN A Boston chef cooked an octopus, placed it in the refrigerator, then discovered it was glowing in the dark. The Marine Biological Laboratory unpacks this mystery under the sea. Learn more and watch the
MBL scientists Joshua Rosenthal and Caroline Albertin are featured in this article. By Rachel Nuwer Humans are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to octopuses. Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago. Octopus brains lack any of the major anatomical features
MBL scientist Jessica Mark Welch and MBL affiliates Colleen Cavanaugh and A. Murat Eren contributed to this study. By Juan Siliezar article-meIt’s not a stretch to say that we live in a microbial world. Microbes can make us sick (as they are demonstrating right now), lead the way for medicines like targeted therapeutics and probiotics,
MBL Director Nipam Patel’s lab participated in the production of this film, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival. By Pakinam Amer Every year millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to the mountain forests of Mexico’s central highlands. In breathtaking swarms, they seek warmer lands where milkweed grows
By Mike McRae Spend a few minutes watching the graceful dance of an octopus on the prowl and you’ll quickly appreciate their talent for making their arms flow like a living liquid. It’s one thing to marvel at their flexibility. To really get a grip on their motor skills, researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory
Biomolecular condensates “are changing our fundamental understanding of how cells work.” They were first observed and described in the MBL Physiology course. By Viviane Callier Imagine packing all the people in the world into the Great Salt Lake in Utah — all of us jammed shoulder to shoulder, yet also charging past one another at
Note: Brad Gemmell, Jack Costello and Sean Colin collaborate in the MBL Whitman Center to study locomotion in marine animals. Most of this jellyfish video was taken at MBL. By Kenneth Chang Locomotion through the seas can be arduous. Water is more viscous than air, and so underwater creatures must overcome strong frictional resistance as
Jessica Mark Welch is an Associate Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. This is her story from the field as told to Claire Maldarelli. Bacteria run the world, and even though they’re all around us and seemingly crucial to the function of every single biological ecosystem, we still know little about them.
This podcast is a two-part conversation with marine biologist Roger Hanlon and TBA21–Academy’s Markus Reymann around the possible connexions between art and science that can be made through octopus tentacles. Their words dance with Octo-Durga, the “post big-bang underwater cephalopod dancer from the depths of one of Jupiter’s moons, from Europa’s oceans” created by Eduardo