For more than 20 years, The Clowes Fund has supported a wide range of programs and facilities at the MBL, including research in the Marine Resources Center and the modernization of the Lillie Research Building. It has also helped to build the endowments of the MBL/WHOI Library and the Ecosystems Center.

Studies of the cell have a long and rich history

No one can forecast how acid rain will affect any particular lake but sulfur studies are bringing MBL ecologists closer to a model that can make predictions about groups of lakes.

New Englands's coast is being developed rapidly; fortunately not all her estuaries are filled with nitrogen.

An unusual group of students learn the latest techniques for growing food fish.

An introduction to how the common toadfish has helped MBL scientists understand the causes of diabetes.

Ecologists need worlds and time; model builders have just the thing - throw-away worlds where seasons fly by in seconds.

Neurobiologist Clay Armstrong asks what calcium is doing in nerve cells.

A team of ecologists studying Alaskan lakes and rivers finds a leak in the Arctic's carbon sink

At the MBL's Annual Meeting in August, members of the MBL Corporation elected five year-round and summer scientists to serve on the Laboratory's Science Council.

Along with being a wonderful main course, the lobster is also a great critter for scietific studies.

This strange-looking cephalopod in the MRC uses polarized light - but for what?

Neurobiologists do it.So do sensory physiologists.And biophysicists.Even behaviorists.

Where is the motor and why does it matter? Biologist Larry Rome's new technique measures swimming power in fish.

What happens if you clear a chunk of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of Massachusetts every year?

All rods and no cones, the retina of the skate is yielding clues to degenerative eye diseases

The latest financial awards to the MBL scientific community

Recent Awards to the MBL Community

MBL Scientist David Keefe Seeks Clues to Age-Related Infertility

While some MBL scientists are exploring the toadfish's noise-making muscles, others are working on the problem of how the grunting fish hears - and what it hears.

MBL remembers Dr. Mary Sears

Find out how, in the race to find a mate, the toadfish's unique swim bladder muscle can operate amazingly fast - faster than the muscles in rattlesnake tails, hummingbird wings and Olympic sprinter Micheal Johnson's legs.

Former students wax poetic when they reflect on their MBL days

There's more behind a lobster's posturing than mere bravado

An MBL/Boston University biologist sends a satellite to the bottom of the ocean to film miniature marine communities

MBL's newest scientist comes to the MBL to study salamander noses and how brains work

The Marine Biological Laboratory has almost completed the architectural plans for a new Environmental Sciences building designed to address the burgeoning needs of the MBL's Ecosystems Center.

The MBL Bids Farewell to a Strong and Respected Leader

Six Atlantic loggerhead turtles are being cared for by the staff of the MBL’s Marine Resources Center (MRC).

The MBL agreed to host two AmeriCorp volunteers this year at the Marine Resources Center, the Lab’s research and holding facility for the marine organisms used in biomedical research.

Starr Foundation Awards $500,000 in Support of New Environmental Sciences Building

First Comprehensive Public Campaign Seeks 25M for Research and Education

This common echinoderm is shedding light on the interactions between drugs and the developing embryo.

The four-year award will support the majority of the Laboratory's advanced courses.

Cells reproduce by dividing, a simple sounding strategy - but how do they manage to get everything in the right place at the right time.

It's one of the delicious ironies of seaside science that squid nerve cells are among the most thoroughly studied cells on earth, while the beautiful little animal itself is something of a mystery.

NASA Will Study Balance in Two Woods Hole Toadfish, a Senator and Five Astronauts in Upcoming

An international team of scientists has discovered a new network that cells use to move molecules about inside their own borders. The result is changing our understanding of how healthy nerve cells work

MBL Recieves $1M To Establish Scientific Aquaculture Program at the Marine Resources Center

From the Newsroom to the Lab: A Rookie’s Tale

The rivers are smaller than in the Amazon and the development is different, but the question is the same: how will huma activity on land affect life in the waters?

Boston University Medical School Establishes Eye Research Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory

MBL's Molcular Evolution team proves that leaf-cutters and their fungi have likely evolved together for millions of years

MBL Scientists Use Venom of the Cone Snail as a Tool to Study Blood Disorders

One or another aspect of Opsanus' anatomy makes it a good model for research into insulin secretion and diabetes, hearing and dizziness, nausea and motion sickness, drug metabolism and pollution, and toxicology

MBL Board of Trustees Votes to Extend Director's Appointment On Giving Real Estate

The surf clam is helping biologists clear up longstanding mysteries about how cells divide

It matters that we have a quantitatively meaningful sense of the complexity of biological systems.

Did this eccentric Lamarckian falsify his findings rather than throw out his theory.

MBL's BioCurrents Research Center Develops New Tool to Aid Clinicians

An MBL biologist looks for antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs in the world of marine microbes.

MBL Scientists study nerve cells of squid to learn more about a crucial cellular machine.

MBL Scientists Study Nerve Cells of Squid to Learn More About a Crucial Cellular Machine Found in All Animals — Even Humans

At the turn of the century, Martha’s Vineyard was covered in a mosaic of shrublands, fields, and grasslands. Efforts are underway to restore this diversity.

Luminescent crustaceans helped Japanese soldiers find each other in the dark.

The photoprotein aequorin lights the way for scientists studying calcium in the cell.

The squid's storied axon is surely one of the most studied cells on earth

For the first time outside of Hawaii, MRC scientists have successfully cultured the Hawaiin Reef Squid, Euprymna scolopes.

Two proteins found in the horseshoe crab's blood may reveal some of nature's oldest and most basic strategies in the attle against invading microbes.

How can you study processes that are played out on large stages over long periods of time.

At a remote field station on Alaska's North Slope, MBl Ecosystems investigators conduct long-term research on the arctic ecosystem .

A common trigger precipitates biological events as diverse as the contraction of a muscle and the secretion of a hormone. The trigger is a minute flux of calcium ions . . . knowledge of these intricacies may lead to a greater clinical control over intracellular calcium, a possibility that has broad implications for the treatment of disease.

Human beings are inadvertantly fertilizing the planet's forests, fields, and waters, and MBL scientists are trying to understand the consequences

MBL summer scientists observe, for the first time, a human virus moving through a squid axon

A chain of discovery closes in on the prime mover of cellular freight.

Will rainforest make good crop soil? Good pasture?

Why is the surf clam, Spisula, so special to developmental biologists.

One biologist comes to the MBL on sabbatical to get away from telephones and faculty meetings, another to get prepared for the summer research season.

Scientists from six continents descend on Woods Hole for a nine-week parasitology meeting.

Immersing themselves in the MBL community, science journalists forget about breakthroughs and focus on the process of science.

The MBL's Marine Resources Center is home to approximately 750 wild-stock and a few hundred AB mutant strains of zebrafish.

Move over white mouse. Black-striped zebrafish are taking the world of developmental biology by storm these days.