Marine Biological Laboratory – NIH Director's Blog (original) (raw)

First Day in the Life of Nine Amazing Creatures

Posted on June 28th, 2018 by Dr. Francis Collins

Credit: Tessa Montague, Harvard University, and Zuzka Vavrušová, University of California, San Francisco

Each summer for the last 125 years, students from around the country have traveled to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, for an intensive course in embryology. While visiting this peaceful and scenic village on Cape Cod, they’re exposed to a dizzying array of organisms and state-of-the-art techniques to study their development.

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