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A rotifer under the microscope with an egg

How a Mother’s Age Influences Her Offspring Remains a Genetic Mystery—These Tiny Aquatic Animals May Have Answers | The Debrief

August 19, 2026

Two microscopic rotifers

Molecular Memory: How a Mother’s Age Echoes in Her Offspring’s Cells

August 17, 2026

Northern Lights over Eel Pond.

2024: A Year of Discovery at MBL

December 31, 2024

Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga, birefringence image, polarized light microscope. Credit: M. Shribak and I. Arkhipova, MBL

Tiny Animals Steal Genes from Bacteria to Produce Antibiotics | Earth.com

July 31, 2024

bdelloid rotifer infected by fungus

Ant Surgeons? Transatlantic Butterflies? Worms That Make Antibiotics? | Slate

July 18, 2024

Bdelloid rotifers on a gray background. These rotifers are about a hair's breadth in size. They lay large oval eggs that will hatch into genetic copies of their mother, without needing sex or fertilisation.

Small Animals Acquire Genes from Bacteria that Can Produce Antibiotics

July 18, 2024

MBL Campus from across Eel Pond

MBL Research Year in Review

December 29, 2023

Rotifer. Credit: Kristin Gribble and Michael Shribak | Equipment: Polychromatic Polscope

Powerful Gene Editing Approach Boosts Rotifers in Pantheon of Laboratory Animals

August 2, 2023

flamboyant cuttlefish eggs

Creature Feature: MBL Organisms

October 28, 2022