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Scientists Probe New Ways to Control Malaria | Science News for Students

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Scientists Probe New Ways to Control Malaria | Science News for Students

Reporting for this story was made possible by an MBL Logan Science Journalism Program “Chicago Fellowship” to Kathiann Kowalski. By Kathiann Kowalski CHICAGO, Ill. — Science detectives are following new clues in their quest to stop a killer — malaria. The disease claimed the lives of roughly 429,000 people in 2015 alone, according to the

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Microbial Physiology and Diversity: What’s Old is New | Small Things Considered

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Microbial Physiology and Diversity: What's Old is New | Small Things Considered

George A. O’Toole of Dartmouth College, incoming co-director of the MBL Microbial Diversity course, writes about changes (and constancies) in the study of microbiology on the “Small Things Considered” blog. For the past 4 years I have been serving as a faculty instructor for the Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole. I noticed something striking

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