A Lifetime Under the Waves

A Lifetime Under the Waves THE WORD “LAB” may suggest white coats, microscopes, and petri dishes. But for Jon Witman and the members of his lab at Brown University, the word has a completely different—and wetter—connotation. The group of 10 spends much of...

Endeavor | Fantastic Voyages Near End

Endeavor | Fantastic Voyages Near End IT HAS CRUISED THE WORLD’S OCEANS FOR 42 YEARS—more than a million nautical miles from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the Arctic to the Black Sea—and now is nearing retirement. But the R/V Endeavor is still...

Diving Deep For New Drug Therapies

Diving Deep For New Drug Therapies HUMANS HAVE RELIED ON A VARIETY OF NATURAL COMPOUNDS from plants, fungi, and other organisms for their medicinal properties for many thousands of years. The search for new medicines to treat diseases has long relied on these natural...