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Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

A colony of Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria in dental plaque. Credit: Scott Chimileski, Marine Biological Laboratory.

Unusual Cell Division in Common Mouth Bacteria Reshapes Our Understanding of Dental Plaque

Categories Health

This rotifer has just survived a life-threatening infection. When a fungal disease attacked, she switched on hundreds of genes that her ancestors copied from microbes, including antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria. Notes: This animal is about a quarter of a millimetre long and belongs to the species Adineta ricciae. It has two red eyes on its head.

Tiny Wheel Animals Steal Bacterial Genes to Make Their Own Antibiotics

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), a small shark species, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.

Sharks Display Unique Healing Abilities, Unlocking Potential Biomedical Applications

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

California two-spot octopus hatchlings

Pumped for frigid weather: study pinpoints cold adaptations in nervous system of Antarctic octopus

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans

The Atlantic longfin inshore squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, has been studied for nearly a century by scientists as a model system for neuroscience investigations.

Squid and octopus genome studies reveal how cephalopods’ unique traits evolved

Categories Life & Non-humans

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