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Looking Back at 2017: Non-Model Model Organisms & Other Top Picks | BMC Biology

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BMC Biology has selected  “non-model model organisms  – whose unique biology can help understanding diverse processes” as one of the journal’s top stories in 2017.  Several MBL-affiliated scientists, including Wallace Marshall (co-director, Physiology course) and Julie Theriot (faculty, Physical Biology of the Cell course) provided BMC with a review of selected promising novel model systems.

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Squid Communicate With a Secret, Skin-Powered Alphabet | WIRED

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Squid Communicate With a Secret, Skin-Powered Alphabet | WIRED

By Anna Vlasits Squid and their cephalopod brethren have been the inspiration for many a science fiction creature. Their slippery appendages, huge proportions, and inking abilities can be downright shudder-inducing. (See: Arrival.) But you should probably be more concerned by the cephalopod’s huge brain—which not only helps it solve tricky puzzles, but also lets it

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