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Jellyfish Images by MBL’s Osamu Shimomura Light Up an Edinburgh Spring
Pedestrians in Edinburgh, Scotland, have been treated to a springtime display of giant photos of “glowing” or bioluminescent animals, including images of the jellyfish Aequorea aequorea captured by MBL...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Cuttlefish Appears in The New York Times
A whimsical, enlightening video about cuttlefish camouflage by Jacob Gindi, a senior and biology major at Brown University, appeared in The New York Times last week. Gindi had encountered live...
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In the Whitman Center: Tadpoles Aid Neural Regeneration Research
By Laurel Hamers One of the brain’s amazing abilities is self-repair: Although injury or illness may disrupt neural circuits, many connections will reform over time. Artur Llobet, an MBL Research...
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Adam Cohen Receives Inaugural Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
Adam Cohen instructing in the MBL Physiology course in 2014.Credit: Tom Kleindinst Adam Cohen, a faculty member and former student in the MBL’s Physiology course, is one of three winners of the...
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Serendipity, MBL Style
By Wallace Marshall Co-director, MBL Physiology Course Last month, I had a problem. I was teaching in the MBL Physiology course, using the giant, single-celled organism Stentor as a model system for...
View ArticleCell Biologist Releases a “Microscopic Blockbuster”
MBL Adjunct Scientist Amy Gladfelter can now add “video producer” to her resume. Tapped to make her science “visible to the world” by Celldance Studios, a project of the American Society for Cell...
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Sea Slug has Taken Genes from the Algae it Eats, Allowing it to...
Contact: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu WOODS HOLE, Mass.—How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a...
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Oosight(R) Microscope Line Developed at MBL is Acquired
The Oosight(R) product line of microscopes, developed at the MBL and commercialized by Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), has been acquired by Hamilton Thorne, Ltd., a provider of...
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From MBL to the Twitter-verse
If you check the MBL’s Twitter feed during the summer months, you’ll be treated to quick, highly enthusiastic, and often visually beautiful dispatches from the MBL’s Summer Courses. The students and...
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Who Needs Sleep? Biophysicist Hari Shroff Finds His Niche
For a young scientist, Hari Shroff, co-director of the Optical Microscopy and Imaging course at MBL, has seen his share of career peaks. Shroff entered the University of Washington at age 14 and...
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