By Nell Greenfieldboyce Broadcast on “All Things Considered,” June 3, 2019 At the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., there’s a room filled with burbling aquariums. A lot of them have lids weighed down with big rocks. “Octopuses are notorious for being able to, kind of, escape out of their enclosures,” says Bret Grasse,
By Mićo Tatalović Move over mice and fruit flies, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is busy developing the next great model organism for science. Just past a “squid sign-out” sheet, on the ground floor of a stately brick building at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a handful of
Roger Hanlon’s TED Talk, presented in April in Vancouver, has just been released! Dive into the brainy world of octopus, squid, and cuttlefish with Hanlon, a senior scientist at MBL and a world expert on cephalopod behavior. His talk is currently featured as a recommended video on TED.com. Source: Roger Hanlon: The amazing brains and
Our second annual Undergraduate Practicum in Bioluminescence held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in beautiful Woods Hole, Massachusetts, was a huge success! In late March 2019, our NeuroNex Technology Hub hosted 13 undergraduates from colleges and universities across the United States and Canada … Students attended morning lectures on the biology, chemistry and physics
By Ryan Bray Two new electric vehicle charging stations were unveiled on the campus of the Marine Biological Laboratory April 24. The stations, the first installed on the MBL campus in Woods Hole, are set up directly outside the carpentry shop in the Swope Center parking lot on North Street. Use of the stations is
By Jack Shea SALISBURY — Drivers on Bridge Road may have noticed an unusual-looking, chrome-colored vessel taking shape outside Wilson Welding in recent weeks, but on Thursday, the boat was shipped off to be tested by a team of government scientists. Conceptualized by Newburyport scientist Clifford Goudey and built by Wilson Welding owner Dan Wilson, the boat
By Aria Bendix If scientist Roger Hanlon seems a little obsessed with octopuses, it’s because he’s been studying them for the past decade — and he thinks they could hold a key to advancements in fashion, cosmetics, and even medicine. For years, Hanlon and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological
Paul Greengard was an alumnus of the MBL Embryology course (1950), an Embryology course assistant (1951), Whitman Center investigator (1968, 1987), and a faculty member in the Neurobiology course (1985). From Rockefeller University News Neurobiologist Paul Greengard, a Nobel laureate who revolutionized our understanding of how brain cells communicate with each other and contributed to
In recognition of MBL’s influence on his career and the opportunities it can offer to Yale medical students, Jack Levin, M.D., and his wife Francine have made a philanthropic commitment at Yale to establish the Yale-at-MBL Initiative for Student Research. From Medicine@Yale Roughly 170 miles up the highway from New Haven, at the southwest tip
By Kate MacCord and Jane Maienschein MBL McDonnell Initiative and Arizona State University Regeneration occurs at many different levels in nature, from individual organisms (notably earthworms and hydra), through communities of microbes, to ecosystems such as forests. … At each of these levels we see evidence for a built-in regenerative process that attempts to maintain