New Imaging Technique Developed at MBL Illuminates The Structure of Dental Plaque More than 600 different kinds of bacteria live in the human mouth, but only a handful can be identified at any one time using conventional microscopy. That has left researchers and clinicians in the dark about where the rest may be, and how [...]

In a brainless marine worm, MBL researchers find the developmental “scaffold” for the vertebrate brain WOODS HOLE, MA—The origin of the exquisitely complex vertebrate brain is somewhat mysterious. “In terms of evolution, it basically pops up out of nowhere. You don’t see anything anatomically like it in other animals,” says Ariel Pani, an investigator at [...]