Marine biology network launches into choppy waters

摘要

Sometimes good ideas take a while to be picked up. In 1872, Anton Dohrn, a pioneering German biologist, wrote a commentary in Nature proposing the foundation of "a net of scientific stations" along European coasts, focusing on marine biology (Nature 5,277-280; 1872). Almost 140 years later, an institute that bears Dohrn's name is leading a twenty-first-century realization of his idea.