Nicholas Bellono
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Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Photo by Anik Grearson. #evolution #symbiosis. #cellbiology. @cellpress.bsky.social
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🎉It’s #CephalopodWeek! Our annual celebration of all things octopus, squid, and cuttlefish 🐙🦑 To kick things off: A new study looks into how octopuses use the suckers on their arms to “taste” harmful microbes on surfaces they touch.

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A yellow octopus with tentacles and suckers akimbo
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Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social
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Corey Allard and Amy Lee discuss curious "solar-powered" animals that steal and maintain foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @harvardcellbio.bsky.social, @danafarbernews.bsky.social.
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Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @cellpress.bsky.social, @harvardmcb.bsky.social, @harvardmed.bsky.social
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Specific molecules produced by bacteria in rotting food can activate these sucker sensors, causing octopuses to discard food or eggs that would make them or their offspring sick.

Learn more: scim.ag/3G8Kv6Z
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Microbiomes shape our biology from gut-brain, skin, immunology, and more. Here, Rebecka Sepela et al explores octopus “taste by touch” sensation to ask how environmental microbiomes drive animal behavior. @cellpress.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social
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The famous Meselson-Stahl experiment, which provided strong evidence for semi-conservative DNA replication, had its roots at the MBL! 🧬 Meselson and Stahl met here in the summer of 1954.

Happy #DNADay! #sciencestartshere

📷: Matthew Meselson in summer 1954
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Your legs may help you get around, but what if they could also help you sniff out a snack? That’s a trick achieved by a fish called the sea robin.

Recently, researchers reported that those legs are also chemical sensing organs that can taste for prey buried under the sand.
These Fish Use Their Legs (Yes, Legs) To Taste
New research into a strange fish known as the sea robin finds that leg-like appendages can “taste” prey buried in the sand.
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I also recently published this comic as well with Science News Explores, about SEA ROBINS and their TONGUE-LEGS. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming. #sciart #sciencecomic

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Illustration shows a brown-spotted fish with big fins and weird little legs coming out its underside. The fish is eating a clam. Text reads "Sea Robin Legs Double as Tongues. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel"
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Congrats to the 2025 JCC Symposium Poster Presentation Award Winners: Dr. Xinyu Ling, Dr. Pablo Villar, and Dr. Zhuoning Zou!!!
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Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Questions and answers from our own Corey Allard allardlab.hms.harvard.edu on his labs quest to discover new biology and reveal conserved and fundamental principles that operate across biological systems and impact human health. hms.harvard.edu/news/fish-le...
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