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'Marine Biological Laboratory'
Scientists unravelling the mystery of camouflage
— 19 Jan 2009 18:20 | BiologyAt Hogwarts, Harry Potter uses an invisibility cloak to hide from his enemies. In nature, animals like cuttlefish and chameleons use the awe-inspiring tricks of camouflage to hide from…
Antibiotics can cause pervasive, persistant changes to microbiota in human gut
— 19 Nov 2008 17:48 | HealthUsing a novel technique developed by Mitchell Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to identify different types of bacteria, scientists have completed the most precise survey…
Scientists call for policy to guide biofuels industry toward sustainability
— 9 Oct 2008 08:57 | EnvironmentAs the United States and other nations commit to the path of biofuels production, a group of scientists is calling for sustainable practices in an industry that will, as MBL scientist…
Plastics suspect in lobster illness
— 14 Aug 2008 18:57 | EnvironmentThe search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) visiting scientist to suspect…
DNA from other species discovered in genomes of an asexual animal
— 29 May 2008 22:05 | BiologyWhere do you get your genes? If you are an animal, you inherit them from your parents at the moment of conception, and that's about it. No later incorporation of environmental DNA for…
New evidence suggests a symbiogenetic origin for the centrosome
— 6 May 2008 16:04 | BiologyThere are two ways in which cooperation is the theme of a paper published this week by Mark Alliegro and Mary Anne Alliegro, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory's (MBL) Josephine…
Asexual rotifers show extreme resistance to radiation
— 3 Apr 2008 14:08 | BiologyBirds and bees may do it, but the microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers seem to get along just fine without sex, thank you. What's more, they have done so over millions of years…
Oosight microscope enables embryonic stem cell breakthrough
— 2 Dec 2007 20:44 | BiologyA noninvasive, polarised light microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) played a crucial role in a recent breakthrough in embryonic stem-cell research aimed at…
Thousands of deep-sea microbes discovered
— 5 Oct 2007 06:37 | BiologyThousands of new kinds of marine microbes have been discovered at two deep-sea hydrothermal vents off the Oregon coast by scientists at the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) and University…
Giardia genome unlocked
— 28 Sep 2007 02:54 | BiologyGiardia lamblia, one of the most common human parasites in the United States, causes more than 20,000 intestinal infections a year, often through contact with contaminated drinking…