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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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Guest blog at MBL: The Tunicate Files

May 25, 2011 by Brooke Borel

Today, I wrote a post for the MBL’s Logan Science Journalism blog, which is reposted below.  To see the original, click here. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Science journalists are regularly thrown into new topics, which we have to master quickly in order to meet deadlines. Because of this, there are times where we’re introduced to an idea, a field of study or even an animal within a limited context (particularly for generalist writers, like yours truly). This week, I became intimately acquainted with […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fellowship, fertilization, mbl, tunicates

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