Foundational Research

High-tech imaging center opens at Hopkins Marine Station

The newly renovated space with confocal microscopes offers Stanford researchers the rare opportunity to study the cellular and molecular structures of marine organisms that hold clues to the evolution of life, right on the shores of the ocean where it all started.

Life science researcher Peter Nilsson adjusts one of the new confocal microscopes in the imaging center at Hopkins Marine Station. An image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) is displayed on the screen behind him.
LiPo Ching/Stanford University
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Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

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Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Stanford study reveals mechanisms behind how growing cells maintain their mojo by scaling up biosynthesis