The authors of this Science magazine tribute to Joe L. Martinez, Jr., who co-founded the MBL Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES), are also associated with the MBL. Keith Trujillo has served as SPINES co-director, faculty member and advisory board member; Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was a faculty member; and Kenira Thompson is a course
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
.entry-headerBB Science in the News is a student group at the Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences whose mission is to bridge the communication gap between scientists and non-scientists. This article highlights research from the Jessica Mark Welch lab at MBL. By Sophia Swartz Figures by Nicholas Lue Welcome HOM(e)! Your mouth isn’t
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
The MBL is proud and inspired to see so many familiar faces in this list, compiled by Cell Mentor/Cell Press! Among them are MBL Fellows Daniel Colón-Ramos and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado; the late Joe L. Martinez Jr., co-founder of the MBL SPINES course; Veronica G. Martinez Acosta, co-director of the Biological Discovery in Woods Hole
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
Catherine Dulac of Harvard University/HHMI, a Whitman scientist at MBL in 2018, is one of four recipients of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Dulac was recognized for her work identifying brain circuits that control parenting behavior. September 10, 2020 – San Francisco – The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the esteemed recipients of
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