MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Gary Borisy, president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has received the 2011 E.B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) at their December meeting. The award recognizes ‘far-reaching contributions to cell biology over a lifetime in science.’ Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939) was one of fourteen investigators [...]

Announcing The 2011 MBL Scientific Photography Contest Winners! Thank you to all who submitted entries to our 2011 photo contest. Below are the entries selected by our judges. Please click on image or title for full sized photo. Click here for more details.

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 [...]