data preprocessed in process/process-data.js These beautiful visualizations of the coronavirus include a movie of protein-RNA condensates made in the laboratory of MBL Fellow Amy Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. By Carl Zimmer In February, as the new coronavirus swept across China and shut down entire cities, a scientist named Sai Li set
By Leila McNeill In 1923, when Roger Arliner Young graduated from Howard University with her bachelor’s degree, she scrawled these words next to her photo: “Not failure, but low aim is a crime.” She would live by that maxim for the next decade, making waves in biology and rising through science and academia at a
Three world-renowned science institutions in Woods Hole are preparing their ocean-front facilities for the threats of climate change and will soon release an adaptation plan. By Eve Zuckoff Scientists, policymakers, and business leaders discussed the effects sea level rise, storm surge, and erosion could have on the area in the southern tip of Falmouth during
By Jennifer Tsang Five years ago, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Marine Biological Laboratory reported that they could predict obesity levels of a city from the sewage microbiome with 81 to 89 percent accuracy. They also found that the microbiomes of the humans living in a city are represented in that city’s. The
Korro Bio’s RNA-editing technology is based on research by MBL Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal. By Ben Adams Korro Bio has got off a meaty series A funding round, nabbing $91.5 million to run its platform of single-base RNA edits to treat a range of diseases. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech will use the cash haul toward
The MBL’s Falmouth Forum hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI, the Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR station. By Mindy Todd We begin our monthly conversations with speakers at the Falmouth Forum, a series bringing cultural enrichment to the community. This month Nipam Patel, Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, joins us. Dr. Patel’s talk
By Helen Thompson Don’t let the name fool you. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) look anything but flashy most of the time. Images and videos of the marine mollusks flashing bright purple and yellow hues litter the internet, perpetuating the idea that these animals are constantly putting on a show in the wild. But a new
CBS News Correspondent Chip Reid traveled to the MBL last summer to interview Roger Hanlon, senior scientist, and Bret Grasse, manager of cephalopod operations, for this CBS Sunday Morning segment. The show re-aired on Aug. 30; watch the clip here! Photo: Now you see him, now you don’t: An octopus camouflages itself in the blink
A giant in the field of neurobiology, Mark Konishi formerly served on the faculty of the MBL Neural Systems & Behavior course, which presents an honorary lecture in his name, The Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship in NS&B. By Ashley Yeager Masakazu “Mark” Konishi, renowned for his research on the neuroscience of owl hunting and birdsong,
This new MBL research was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on July 30. Listen to the segment here. By Nell Greenfieldboyce Scientists report this week that they have disabled a pigmentation gene in a squid called Doryteuthis pealeii. Their success shows that cephalopods—which include squid and octopuses–can finally be studied using the same kind