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

The adage “you are what you eat” is true on societal, cultural and global levels, as well as the individual level. Our diets may be contributing to the rapid rise...Read more

Nine faculty members from institutions around the country, including four from the University of Chicago, have been named to the inaugural group of MBL Fellows at the Marine Biological Laboratory...Read more

Researchers to study world of microbes across environments

Sharks, skates and rays are oddities among fish: They have appendages growing out of the gill arches, small cradles of bones that supports the gills. This anatomical peculiarity has led...Read more

MBL program offers broad view of marine research, leading to study of Darwin’s observations

An increasingly vital part of the University of Chicago’s legacy of pushing forward the boundaries of scientific understanding is the University’s affiliation with internationally renowned centers of research: Argonne National...Read more

Community invited to the program, viewing parties and webcast

Nets in hand, 12 University of Chicago Laboratory Schools students spent a day in late August on Naushon Island off the coast of Woods Hole, Mass., where they scouted and...Read more