By Christine Lynch Across from St. Joseph’s Chapel on Millfield Street in Woods Hole, the Mary Garden sits on Eel Pond, with its view of the village laboratories on Water Street across the way with the sea beyond. Just entering through the wooden gate of this garden brings a serenity helpful for weathering the stress
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet. In a surprising twist, in April 2017 scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt
The nitrogen levels in Great Pond are being monitored by the US Geological Survey, the Marine Biological Laboratory and the UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology. By Brad Cole Construction of a sewer system to serve the areas of Teaticket and Acapesket is projected for 2026. “The town has put up money for
MBL scientist Jessica Mark Welch and Ira Flatow of “Science Friday” talked earlier this year about the billions of bacteria that live on the human tongue; the segment re-aired on Dec. 18. Listen here…. Source: Future Of Climate Change, Tongue Microbiome. Dec 18, 2020, Part 1 | Science Friday | WNYC Studios
MBL Associate Scientist Jessica Mark Welch is co-author of this new study. By Harvard University Bacteria often show very strong biogeography—some bacteria are abundant in specific locations while absent from others—leading to major questions when applying microbiology to therapeutics or probiotics: how did the bacteria get into the wrong place? How do we add the
Congratulations to MBL Whitman Scientist Karen Crawford, whose image of mosaic squid hatchlings was selected as one of Nature’s “best science images of 2020.” Crawford, MBL Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal, and team accomplished the first successful gene knockout in a cephalopod this year. Text by Nisha Gaind, images selected by Nature’s visuals team 2020 has been
By Eve Zuckoff How did insects get their wings? After 100 years of debate, that is the mystery just solved by biologists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Until now, many scientists believed that insect wings were ”novel” structures that sprang up with no corresponding structure in the ancestor. But postdoctoral researcher Heather
by David Westenberg Each summer, the Microbial Diversity course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA is the place for exploring the incredible beauty and diversity of the microbial world. The 6 ½ week course brings together a group of strangers for the purpose of learning to cultivate and isolate microbes. The beauty
By Jill Sjong This week we review the hit movie “My Octopus Teacher,” the story about a man who goes diving in a kelp forest off the Western Cape of South Africa, and becomes acquainted with an octopus. We review the movie with Roger Hanlon, a diving biologist, cephalopod expert and senior scientist at
An update on research from Andrew Gillis, a Marine Biological Laboratory Whitman Center Scientist from the University of Cambridge, U.K. and an incoming MBL scientist. By Lewis Robertson A Centuries old theory on the evolution of fins has now gained support by UK scientists. The theory first appeared in the late 1800s, suggested that paired