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Former MBL President and Director Gary Borisy Receives 2011 E.B. Wilson Award - The 2011 medal was awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) at their December meeting. |
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New Imaging Technique Developed at MBL Illuminates The Structure of Dental Plaque - With a new imaging technique developed at the MBL, up to 120 different kinds of bacteria in human dental plaque can be detected in a single field of view. |
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iBioSeminars Feature MBL Research - MBL Whitman Center researcher Ron Vale spent much of the summer of 2011 directing his colleagues in a series of videos. |
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Census of “Hard to See” Marine Life Nears Culmination - The CoML involves more than 2,000 scientists from 80-plus nations. |
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An Arctic with Fire - Wildfires are transforming the Alaskan tundra—and may be an accelerant to climate change |
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Discover the Microbes Within! - The Wolbachia Project is designed for high school biology educators in an effort to modernize biology labs and lesson plans with discovery-based labs, biotechnology, and symbiosis. |
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Remembering Sheldon Segal - Contraception Pioneer, Former MBL Board Chair Sheldon Segal Dies at 83 |
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A Natural Product Gives Hope for Slowing Prostate Cancer - MBL Visiting Researcher Kimberly Jackson studies how a compound from licorice root works in prostate cancer cells |
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Perfecting Algal Biodiesel - MBL visiting researcher Nagwa Mohammady searches for the best way to grow algae for fuel. |
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From Phytoplankton to Penguins - Climate change is altering food web from the bottom up in western Antarctica |
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Database for New Tropical-Disease Drugs is a Hit - World Health Organization has organized an international consortium to create an open-access database on tropical disease pathogens and candidate drugs to treat them. |
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The Power of Self-Healing - MBL Visiting Researcher Explores Wound Repair in the Comb Jelly |
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Do Early-Life Seizures Have Lasting Effects? - Joaquin Lugo studies whether seizures during early zebrafish development have long-term neurological consequences. |
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MBLWHOI Library Develops Taxonomy Toy - Cathy Norton may be on to something: Bioinformatics toys for scientists. |
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Fly Research Takes Off With High-Speed Video - Grass Fellow Gwyneth Card is interested in modeling the neurobiology of fly take-off. |
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Second Sight - Grass Fellow shines (polarized) light on honeybee controversy. |
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Science as a Calling - Finding community, in many ways, in the Brown-MBL graduate program |
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From Think Tank to Fish Tank - MBL hosts international experts at aquaculture symposium. |
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The Evolutionary Secrets of Desert Cells - An MBL ecologist explores green algae’s ability to survive and thrive in the desert. |
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Masters of Disguise - MBL Senior Scientist Roger Hanlon's cephalopod research has produced amazing insights into the behavior of these remarkable creatures. |
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Medical Usefulness of the Sponge - Marine animal offers insights into the basics of immunity. |
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A Cancer Prevention Clue - Zebrafish excel at repairing their own DNA. |
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Bye, Bye Blackbird? - Study suggests link between urban sprawl and abundance of North American breeding birds. |
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Science in Orbit - Astronaut Suni Williams leverages her MBL training in space. |
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Rachel Carson at the MBL - Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, spent six summer weeks in 1929 at the MBL as a beginning investigator in zoology. |
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No Time for Silence - Scientists, journalists discuss the emerging story on environmental estrogens. |
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Not Just Global Warming - MBL scientist finds carbon dioxide makes poison ivy worse. |
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Fasten Your (Nano) Seatbelts! - A Centrifuge Polarizing Microscope (CPM) invented by MBL scientist Shinya Inoué, recently enabled biological engineer Danielle Cook France to study a powerful biological engine. |
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West Falmouth Harbor is Outdoor Classroom for MBL Environmental Science Student - Cornell senior and SES student Jeffrey Walker is studying nitrogen pollution in West Falmouth Harbor. |
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New MBL Study Shows Cancer Drug May Have Future in Alzheimer's Treatment - Marine Snail Plays Key Role in Discovery.
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MBL Scientist Invents Backpack that Uses Muscle Power to Generate Electricity - Whitman Investigator Larry Rome has invented a backpack that gives new meaning to the term muscle power. |
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Simple Sea Sponge Helps Scientists Understand Tissue Rejection - MBL researcher Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets studies why some transplant patients reject their new organs. |
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Helping Opiate-Addicted Babies - MBL summer researcher Dr. Kimberlei Richardson is currently working to help solve the problem of babies born with opiate addiction. |
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Extreme Science - Scientists at the Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution are finding life in strange places. |
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MBL Reaches Out to the Community: Teachers Discover the Microbial World Within at MBL Workshop. |
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Masters of Disguise - New research shows in the animal world, it pays to be an imposter. |
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Avram Hershko Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry - MBL Investigator to receive science's highest honor for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. |
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Center for Oceans and Human Health Established - New Center studying how oceanic processes such as algal blooms affect human health. |
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Clam Mini Genome Project - International team of MBL Scientists sequencing active genes of the surf clam. |
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An Evolutionary Exception Confirmed - Ancient micro-invertebrate thrives and evolves without sex. |
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'Vocal Learners' make noise at MBL - Songbirds a preferred model to study speech acquisition and development. |
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Looking for Life on Mars - The blood of the primitive horseshoe crab may help NASA in the search for life on other planets. |
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Advances in Microscopy Propel Scientists' Understanding of Cell Division - MBL is a gathering place for the world's best and brightest in microscopy and neuroimaging. |
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Living and Evolving Together - Bay Paul Center scientists explore complex partnerships of insects and their bacteria. |
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Marine Biological Laboratory Establishes Program in Global Infectious Diseases - Stephen Hajduk, leading parasitologist, appointed director. |
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New Study Reveals Increased River Discharge to Arctic Ocean - Finding could mean big changes to global climate. |
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Squid Giant Axon Provides Clues to Nerve Cell Repair - Understanding how damaged cells heal may lead to treatment for spinal cord injuries and diseases of the nervous system. |
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