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 To Study Life
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MBL scientists use marine organisms like the barnacle to study fundamental life processes. MBL research using marine models has already inproved our understanding of human diseases and medical conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and infertility.
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 The MBL's highly competitive summer courses are famous among scientists, who send their most promising students off to what has been affectionately called "the boot camp for biologists." James Watson, who received the Nobel Prize for his co-discovery of the DNA double helix, earned his stripes as an instructor. "The physiology course is frightfully intense," he said, "and I have never worked so hard in my life."
Together, the annual summer courses and research programs attract 1000 scientists and advanced students from 200 institutions, making the MBL the largest biological laboratory in the world. Virtually every major research university and medical school in the country has MBL-trained scientists on its faculty. In many ways, the MBL is America's university-of-universities.
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"The National Biological Laboratory"
Today, the MBL—with intense summer programs and ongoing research centers, with top scientists focused on understanding the biomechanics of a single cell and of our entire planet, with the autonomy and excitement that come from a singular focus—is poised on the brink of even greater contributions. In an era of virtual reality and telecommuting, of Internet access and distance learning, bringing together top scientists at all stages of their careers for an intensive immersion in the life and work of science remains critically important. While electronic information systems promise to connect the MBL more constantly to the world research community and to project knowledge gained at Woods Hole farther and faster than ever, it cannot replace the living experience and excitement of discovery found daily at what Lewis Thomas called the "National Biological Laboratory, without being designated (or yet funded) as such."
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1916
Jacques Loeb's experiments in embryology and physical biochemistry led to the discovery of artificial parthenogenesis - the initiation of development without fertilization - one of the spectacular scientific scientific events of the era
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