Artificial intelligence, hardware innovations boost confocal microscope’s performance

Enhancing the workhorse

29-Nov-2021 - Since artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky patented the principle of confocal microscopy in 1957, it has become the workhorse standard in life science laboratories worldwide, due to its superior contrast over traditional wide-field microscopy. Yet confocal microscopes aren’t perfect. ...

Live-cell microscopy reveals cell migration by direct forces

13-Dec-2017 - How do cells move in a certain direction in the body -- go to a wound site and repair it, for example, or hunt down infectious bacteria and kill it? Two new studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) show how cells respond to internal forces when they orient, gain traction, and migrate ...

Clever use of mirrors boosts performance of light-sheet microscope

21-Nov-2017 - Using a simple "mirror trick" and not-so-simple computational analysis, scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have considerably improved the speed, efficiency, and resolution of a light-sheet microscope, with broad applications for enhanced imaging of live cells and ...

MBL scientists find genes linked to human neurological disorders in sea lamprey genome

Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury

28-Feb-2013 - Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence is reported in Nature ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

For the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

08-Oct-2008 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA and Roger Y. ...