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MDI Bio Lab builds housing to keep up with growing staff, student numbers
Since the start of the pandemic, MDI Biological Laboratory has been growing enrollment in its graduate programs and...
South Portland animal-health startup expands its leadership team
ElleVet Sciences, a South Portland animal-health startup specializing in cannabis-based products, is expanding its leadership team with...
Business Leaders: At UMaine, Joan Ferrini-Mundy has been an advocate for STEM education
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, who became president of the University of Maine in 2018, is a math educator by...
Maine’s first mobile biolab starts tour of rural schools in Fort Kent
FORT KENT, Maine — Fort Kent middle schoolers are the state’s first students to learn at the newly unveiled Maine...
NH-based ‘impact investor’ is bullish on Maine life sciences, software sectors
Joe Henderson, based in Hanover, N.H., is vice president of Advantage Capital, a self-described impact investment firm headquartered...
Growing pains: Maine life sciences, biohealth startups hustle to raise capital in a tough environment
Aworld apart from California’s Silicon Valley and greater Boston’s Route 128 technology corridor, Maine life sciences innovators...
In Maine’s medical field, artificial intelligence takes on a mountain of data
Hospitals and research labs are leveraging big health data to prevent, diagnose and treat disease, conduct early...
Breeding innovation: Rarebreed grows out of Maine’s animal-health hub
Like IDEXX Laboratories and ImmuCell before them, young Portland-area entrepreneurs are innovating further to advance animal health....
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R1 drives undergraduate research opportunities
When UMaine earned R1 Carnegie classification in 2022, the designation inspired a dramatic increase in undergraduate research...