by Julia DiPinto | Jun 7, 2025 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
We all know that researchers use DNA to search for hidden answers in living organisms. To do that, researchers must first ensure that their DNA samples are high quality before use. But how do they do this? Whether it’s discovering the cause of white-band...
by Dan Distel | Oct 12, 2023 | In the field, In the lab, News Briefs, Research
Did you know that 75–90% of the estimated 1–2 million species living in the world’s ocean remain undiscovered and undescribed? Together, these species constitute the ocean’s taxonomic dark matter—the critical portion of life’s diversity hidden beneath the waves. To...
by Dan Distel | Sep 30, 2023 | In the field, In the lab, News Briefs, Research
Staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) were once among the most dominant reef-building corals in the Caribbean. However, starting in the mid-1980s, these iconic corals began a steep decline. Due to climate change and a mysterious bacterial plague known as “white band...
by Zack Anderson | May 19, 2023 | In the field, In the lab, News Briefs, Research
Snails are mollusks with distinctive spiral shells. Slugs are snail-like mollusks that have no shells. Easy to tell apart, right? But not so fast. Mollusks of the family Velutinidae are small marine mollusks that have a shell like a snail—but that shell is small and...
by Dan Distel | May 16, 2023 | In the lab, News Briefs
Nahant, Massachusetts, January 24, 2023 – The Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) is a new Environmental Partner of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of more than 5,400 business and individual members that give back to support environmental nonprofits. “At OGL, we are...
by Dan Distel | Jan 24, 2023 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
This week, a team of researchers—including student scientists—from Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) published a discovery that may be a game changer for DNA preservation. This finding is important because safe and effective methods of DNA...
