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...
by Dan Distel | Jan 19, 2023 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
By Dan Distel, Hannah Appiah-Madson, Rosie Poulin, and Zack Anderson January 19, 2023 We are all familiar with the genetic code—the simple set of three-letter words that translate the As, Ts, Cs, and Gs of DNA into the diverse and complex forms we know as animal life....
by Dan Distel | Jul 11, 2022 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
You might know that many animals in the deep sea evolved from shallow water ancestors, but did you ever wonder what happens to their genes when they make that evolutionary trip? Researchers at OGL asked that question by looking at the mitochondria of two families of...
by Lee Fenuccio | May 19, 2022 | In the lab, News Briefs
What animal lives more than 250 years but never eats a thing? If you guessed the deep-sea tubeworm Escarpia laminata, you would be correct—and also probably a deep-sea biologist! Escarpia laminata lives near deep-sea cold seeps, places where methane...
