The glasswing butterfly is quite the sight to see — not because its wings are colorful, but rather transparent as glass. Take a closer look in […]
A selective mating experiment by a curious butterfly breeder has led scientists to a deeper understanding of how butterfly wing color is created and evolves. The […]
https://www.patellab.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Video1-2.mov Heather Bruce is currently working on horseshoe crabs in the lab. Although late in the season, she was able to fertilize embryos in vitro with […]
This month, we were fortunate enough to take a break from our normal day to day lab work and host a group of 25 high school […]
Aaron recently received seed funding from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley to develop new education initiatives, including a course called […]
The W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation is given to a current or recent graduate student who presents an outstanding talk based on their graduate work at […]
Two decades ago, Bill Browne sifted through the marine filtration system at the Shedd Aquarium and found a particularly hardy crustacean that proved quite amenable to […]
Insights from Emerging Model Organisms: From the Physics of Beauty to the Secret Lives of Lobsters Scientists often depend on so-called model organisms, such as fruit […]
MBL director, Nipam Patel, knows a lot about studying organisms. As one of the world’s leading evolutionary and developmental biologists, his work has helped us better […]
Bay Nature’s magazine author Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth, speaks to Nipam to discuss the phenomenon called structural color. For the complete article, click on the link.