BMC Biology has selected  “non-model model organisms  – whose unique biology can help understanding diverse processes" as one of the journal's top stories in 2017.  Several MBL-affiliated scientists, including Wallace Marshall (co-director, Physiology course) and Julie Theriot (faculty, Physical Biology of the Cell course) provided BMC with a review of selected promising novel model systems.

The construction of a digital brain; an evolutionary context to the microbiome; biologists hacking genomes – to begin 2018, the editors of BMC Biology have assembled a selection of their favourite articles published in 2017. Read more of the article here.

Source: Looking back at 2017: Top Picks from BMC Biology