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
Note: The PEP students presented their final symposium on August 7. Read more about the students and their research abstracts here! Sixteen college students from around the country are participating in this year’s Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP). It offers the same basic content and growth experiences as in past summers, but unlike the
Research from the MBL laboratories of Nipam Patel and Carrie Albertin is featured in the July issue of µChicago, the university’s monthly science e-newsletter. Sign up here to subscribe. Nature is painted with pigments—molecules that produce color by absorbing certain wavelengths and reflecting others. Chlorophyll is the pigment that makes plants green; melanin is a
David Berreby leads the annual “Writing About Science for the Public” workshop at MBL and Pakinam Amer is a 2019 alumna of the MBL’s Logan Science Journalism Program. By Pakinam Amer In the final episode of this six-part series about science communication, three experts describe how they learned to craft stories about research for newspaper,
The new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago comprises a collaborative group of mathematicians and statisticians from UChicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who seek to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. IMSI is funded
MBL Whitman scientists spanning centuries — from E.B. Wilson in the 1890s to Clifford Brangwynne, Anthony Hyman, Michael Rosen, Amy Gladfelter and others today — are part of the discovery story of phase separation in cells and how it may relate to a host of diseases. By Carrie Arnold Cells need to coordinate a wide variety
The Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center has launched at the University of Chicago, with a focus on developing new technologies to treat diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, and, most recently, COVID-19. Based at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, the new center will catalyze fundamental and translational research in immunology, serving as a hub for engineers,
Recent research from MBL scientist Jennifer Morgan‘s lab is highlighted in this blog post at the journal eNeuro. Morgan studies the mechanisms that underlie Parkinson’s disease and several other neurodegenerative disorders, using the lamprey as a research model organism. Morgan also directs the MBL’s Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering. By Rosalind
By Patricia Daukantas In the laboratory, some photosensitive corals exhibit their own version of the observer effect: Exposing them to enough light for researchers to view them at microscopic scales changes the rates at which they grow and interact with symbiotic organisms such as algae. Scientists, however, want the coral polyps in their aquariums to
Cliff Brangwynne and colleagues first observed and described phase transition in a cell in the MBL Physiology course. Brangwynne is currently a Whitman Scientist at MBL. By John Hamilton The same process that causes dew drops to form on a blade of grass appears to play an important role in Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.