Articles | Marine Biological Laboratory

Head and shoulders professional image of Alexandra Z Worden, a scientist wearing a pink jacket

MBL Scientist Alexandra Z. Worden Honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship

April 15, 2026

A neurula-stage skate (Leucoraja erinacea) embryo, with embryonic germ layers false-colored. Tissues shown here include the neural tube (cyan), endoderm (yellow), paraxial mesoderm (magenta), lateral plate mesoderm (green) and tailbud (blue).

Fins, Fingers and Toes: A New Take on Repeating Body Parts and How They Come to Be

April 1, 2026

image of frog. head to the left. front legs out. back legs out. in a tank

Male or Female? How Evolution Rewired Sex Determination in One Frog Species

January 29, 2026

MBL view from Eel Pond

Marine Biological Laboratory names Damian N. Desiderio Chief Financial and Operating Officer

January 13, 2026

Graphical depiction of microbial food webs.

An Energy-Based Perspective on Microbial Food Web Structure

December 19, 2025

nucleosome

Insight Emerges: MBL Consortium Visualizes the Creation of Condensates

December 4, 2025

Filamentous cyanobacteria N punctiforme

Light vs. Dark: Team Discovers Multicellular Cyanobacteria Activate Different Genes by Day and by Night

November 20, 2025

zak swartz

MBL's Zak Swartz is Named a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences

August 12, 2025

Nipam Patel on the left and Mark Terasaki on the right.

MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs

July 28, 2025