Nipam Patel, a leading scholar in modern evolutionary and developmental biology, has been appointed director of the Marine Biological Laboratory , an affiliate of the University of Chicago. In addition,...Read more

Marine Biological Laboratory discovery delves into mystery of how cells organize

Wouldn’t it be useful to suddenly erect 3-D spikes out of your skin, hold them for an hour, then even faster retract them and swim away? Octopus and cuttlefish can...Read more

Many of the genes involved in the natural repair of the injured spinal cord of the lamprey are also active in the repair of the peripheral nervous system in mammals,...Read more

For the octopus and cuttlefish, instantaneously changing their skin color and pattern to disappear into the environment is just part of their camouflage prowess. These animals can also swiftly and...Read more

Twenty-six-year research project finds cyclical response between soils, climate system

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Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, a biomaterials scientist and entrepreneur, has been named the inaugural Eugene Bell Professor in Tissue Engineering at the University of Chicago. The Bell Professorship was created to...Read more

Understanding the scale and nature of the scientific, environmental, economic, policy and public health aspects of climate change demands evidence-based research in an environment of free and open inquiry. The...Read more

MBL scientist studies how aggression fits game theory model of behavior

Male cuttlefish compete for females with a repertoire of visually dramatic behaviors. Laboratory experiments have explored this system in Sepia officinalis but corroborative field data have eluded collection attempts by...Read more

MBL-led study finds prolific RNA alteration among octopus, squid

What did the last common ancestor of the vertebrate animals—a very small, soft-bodied marine organism that lived about 600 million years ago—look like? While the portrait is still emerging, a...Read more

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, the Earth’s soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined...Read more

Huntington F. Willard, president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine...Read more

Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory and colleagues have unveiled a new microscope that can track the position and orientation of individual molecules in living cells—nanoscale measurements that until now...Read more

New gene-editing methods help map cells linking fish fins and mammal limbs

Prof. Neil Shubin discusses how fingers and toes evolved from fins

Taking a cue from medical imaging, scientists have invented a multi-view microscope that captures higher-resolution, 3-D images of live cells and tissues without upping the dose of potentially harmful radiation...Read more