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 [...]
“Safe” Levels Of Arsenic In Drinking Water Have Negative Health Effects on Pregnant/Lactating Mothers And Offspring, Scientists Find
June 1, 2012 by
Encyclopedia of Life Reaches Historic “One Million Page” Milestone
May 29, 2012 by
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 [...]
Oysters and Seaweed: Better Together?
May 24, 2012 by
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 [...]
Renowned Climate Communications Expert Susan Joy Hassol to Present “Telling the Climate Change Story” May 21 at the MBL
May 14, 2012 by
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 [...]
New Undergraduates Selected for Brown-MBL Beckman Scholars Program
May 9, 2012 by
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 [...]
Hugh Ducklow Appointed to Antarctic Blue Ribbon Panel
April 26, 2012 by
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 [...]
Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”
April 26, 2012 by
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 [...]
An Evolutionary Surprise
April 26, 2012 by
For Immediate Release: March 14, 2012 Contact: Diana Kenney, dkenney@mbl.edu; 508-289-7139 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 [...]
MBL Trustees Elect Six New Members
April 10, 2012 by
For Immediate Release: February 27, 2012 Contact: Andrea Early, (508) 289-7725; aearly@mbl.edu WOODS HOLE, MA—The Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) recently elected six new Board members. Dr. Ethan A. Lerner of Chestnut Hill, MA was elected to the Class of 2013. Dr. Rita R. Colwell of Bethesda, MD, Dr. Robert Haselkorn of Chicago, [...]
