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Marine algae for pet supplements? Startup rolls out commercial product
A Brunswick-based maker of marine plant-based nutritional supplements is now manufacturing and distributing its first commercial product....
From MRRA: You Can Make It Here
With the former Naval Air Station Brunswick (NASB) now being closed for eight years, manufacturing is driving much of...
The Jackson Laboratory collaborates to help the NIH fight rare diseases
Independent nonprofit biomedical research institute The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) has teamed with Lovelace Biomedical, Exemplar Genetics, Iontox...
Startups from Portland and Orono win 2019 Top Gun Showcase competition
Neuright, a biotech spinoff from the University of Maine, and Sticky Sweet, Portland’s first shop featuring plant-based...
Winner of Maine BioGENEius Challenge Competes in International Finals in Philadelphia (guest post by Melissa Tian)
Lots of ‘cool science’ at Bates spurred by federal program
LEWISTON — For most people, mouse poop is a sign they had better get a cat or...
13-year-old Mainer’s medical invention gains national recognition13-year-old Mainer’s medical invention gains national recognition
HERMON, Maine — Life gave Morgan LaRochelle lemons and boy has she made lemonade! The 13-year-old from...
An industry with a family tree: Much of Maine’s biotech industry grew out of two firms
Like some of its products, cultivated from the cells, strands and science of living organisms, Maine’s biotechnology...
Feds inject $18 million into biotech research and training in Maine
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor received an award of nearly $18 million from the National...
Brunswick company making scientific advances toward more effective prescriptions at lower costs
BRUNSWICK, Maine — The side effects of any new pharmaceutical drug can often be scarier than what...