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Toolik Lake Alaska

Team Discovers a Significant Role for Nitrate in the Arctic Landscape

March 22, 2018

Medaka fish

Genetic Analysis Uncovers the Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Limbs

March 19, 2018

A female (bottom) and male Pacific midshipman fish (top).

What Does it Take to Hum an Hour-Long Mating Call? MBL Whitman Scientists Explain

March 1, 2018

A close-up of the skin of the European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) highlights its mottled appearance, the result of dynamic pigment organs (chromatophores) and fully erect papillae (dermal structures that allow cuttlefish to disrupt its body shape in 3D).

How the Cuttlefish Spikes Out its Skin: Neurological Study Reveals Surprising Control

February 15, 2018

morgan and bloom

Genes that Aid Spinal Cord Healing in Lamprey Also Present in Humans, MBL Team Discovers

January 15, 2018

Tomomi Tani (left), Clare Waterman (right) and MBL scientists Shinya Inoué (foreground) and Rudolf Oldenbourg (back).

Internal Forces Directing Cell Migration are Revealed by Live-Cell Microscopy

December 11, 2017

A single dermal denticle (tooth-like scale) from a skate hatchling. The mineralised denticle is stained red, and the underlying cartilage is stained blue.

Growing Teeth and a Backbone: Studies Trace Early Origins of Skeletal Tissues

November 22, 2017

Patrick La Rivière, left, and Hari Shroff with the diSPIM system (Dual-view Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy).

Not an Illusion: Clever Use of Mirrors Boosts Performance of Light-Sheet Microscope

November 17, 2017

Person with tray in cafeteria line

Framework for Reducing Nitrogen Pollution on College Campuses Receives National Award

November 14, 2017