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Glowing photos and cleavage movies (cell cleavage, that is)

June 2, 2011 by Brooke Borel

I finally cracked open the DVD I received last week from the Brad Shuster, one of my instructors at the MBL fellowship, to take a look at the images and videos that our group made during our stint in the lab. The first set includes tunicate larvae– the same guys that I talked about last week. Brad helped us color these with various antibody stains, which essentially tag specific tissue types with fluorescent dyes so that they glow under the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fellowship, mbl, microscopy, sea urchins, tunicates

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Bow Chicka Wow Wow: How to Get Sea Urchins to Get It On

May 20, 2011 by Brooke Borel

This morning, I learned how to fertilize sea urchin eggs. And then my lab partners and I made a movie of it (title pending). A movie, that is, of the egg and sperm doing their thang under a fancy microscope (Zeiss inverted microscope, using differential interference contrast, if you’re into knowing that kind of thing). So, without further ado, I give you: Sea Urchin Fertilization 101 1. Select a sea urchin 2. Turn the sea urchin upside down– which is […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: biology, fellowship, mbl, sea urchins

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