MBL Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome
Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury Printable version (pdf) MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.— Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence [...]
Sensing the Light, but Not to See: New Insight on the Evolution of Photosensitive Cells
MBL Scientists Find “Bipolar” Distribution of Marine Bacteria, Refuting Idea that “Everything is Everywhere”
Printable version (pdf) Contact: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu WOODS HOLE, MASS.—In another blow to the “Everything is Everywhere” tenet of bacterial distribution in the ocean, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have found “bipolar” species of bacteria that occur in the Arctic and Antarctic, but nowhere else. And, surprisingly, they [...]
Joint Brown University/MBL Graduate Program Awards Four Ph.D.s in 2012
Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2012 Contacts: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139 or 508-289-7423; dkenney@mbl.edu or comm@mbl.edu David Orenstein, Brown University 401-863-1862; David_Orenstein@brown.edu WOODS HOLE, Mass., and PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three women successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertations in the Brown-MBL Partnership and Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences in the [...]
MBL Receives Gift of T. H. Morgan’s Nobel Prize Medal and Diploma
Printable version (pdf) Three granddaughters of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the late MBL scientist, trustee, and pioneer of modern genetics, have donated his Nobel Prize medal and brilliantly colored diploma to the MBL Archives. In 1933, Morgan received the first Nobel Prize ever awarded in the field of genetics for his “discoveries concerning the role played [...]
