The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted “Breakthrough Device” designation to a digital therapy being developed by Portland startup MedRhythms Inc. MedRhythms’ medical device solutions use software, music and biosensors to help alleviate walking [...]

Bangor Teen Wins High Honors in International Science Competition (Portland) The Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) is pleased to announce that Ijeoma Obi, a senior at Bangor High School, was recognized with High Honors for [...]

Immortal cells that can generate new tissue and fix damaged organs? Sounds like a sci-fi movie. But researchers at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor are now looking at “germ” cells as a [...]

Jackson Laboratory, headquartered in Bar Harbor, is scaling up production of research mice designed to help scientists around the world develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. On a parallel track, the lab is ramping up its test capacity [...]

Abbott Laboratories, which makes rapid-result COVID-19 test kits in Scarborough, is planning to expand and ramp up production in Westbrook. The company is renovating and expanding a building on Bradley Drive, which had been used [...]

BioME, the Bioscience Association of Maine, is bringing together representatives of businesses in Maine that have taken the lead in the medical aspect of fighting the COVID-19 virus in free webinar Thursday. “The Science of [...]