April 6, 2013
Biological Discovery in Woods Hole
Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 13, 2012 AT 1 PM EST CONTACT: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7139 or 508-685-3525 (cell); dkenney@mbl.edu MBL, WOODS HOLE, MASS.—The landmark publication this week of a “map” of the bacterial make-up of healthy humans has deep roots in an unexpected place: the ocean. Microbial communities that live [...]
Printable version (pdf) For Immediate Release: June 8, 2012 Contact: David Gallagher, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7119; dgallagher@mbl.edu Coastal Explorers seashore science course planned for the summer MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA — The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Club invites children ages 4, 5, and 6 to explore, discover, and learn about the seashore habitat around Woods [...]
Printable version (pdf) Contacts: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7139 or 508-685-3525; dkenney@mbl.edu Justin Anderson, Dartmouth College, 603-646-3017; justin.anderson@dartmouth.edu MBL, WOODS HOLE, MASS.—Exposure to arsenic in drinking water at the level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently deems as safe in the United States (10 parts per billion) induces adverse health outcomes in pregnant [...]
Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 25, 2012 Contact: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, (508) 289-7139, dkenney@mbl.edu Software that runs the online biodiversity encyclopedia developed at the MBL Woods Hole, MA – The Encyclopedia of Life recently surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new [...]
Printable version (pdf) For Immediate Release: April 17, 2012 Contact: Gina Hebert, (508) 289-7725; ghebert@mbl.edu WOODS HOLE, MA—For seafood lovers, perhaps nothing is more mouthwatering than freshly shucked oysters served on a bed of crushed ice and seaweed. A new MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) initiative will pair the two delicacies in an aquaculture project aimed [...]
Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Gina Hebert, Marine Biological Laboratory, (508) 289-7725, ghebert@mbl.edu Ian Vorster, Woods Hole Research Center, (508) 540-1509, ivorster@whrc.org Woods Hole, MA – Susan Joy Hassol, a climate change communicator, analyst, and author well-known for her ability to translate science into English, will present a special lecture on Monday, May [...]
Printable version (pdf) For Immediate Release: May 11, 2012 Contact: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, dkenney@mbl.edu; 508-289-7139 MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.— Through the Beckman Scholars Program, two exceptional undergraduates per year in the biological, chemical, or medical sciences earn the chance to conduct 15 months of research at the Marine Biological Laboratory and on [...]
For Immediate Release: February 16, 2012 Contact: Andrea Early, (508) 289-7652; aearly@mbl.edu Panel will review U.S. science-support operations in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to inform future policy, budget requests WOODS HOLE, MA—Hugh Ducklow, senior scientist and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center has been appointed to the U.S. Antarctic Program Blue [...]
WOODS HOLE, MA—Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discovered the unique “drunken sailor” gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose malfunction has been associated [...]
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