Winner of Maine BioGENEius Challenge Competes in International Finals in Philadelphia (guest post by Melissa Tian)
Maine BioGENEius winner shares her experience at the International Finals This post was written by Melissa Tian, a high school student from Bangor, who won our very first BioME Student Showcase on April 2019. As [...]
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 some traps. But for one class of Bates College students recently, mouse poop samples opened the door to [...]
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 Hermon, Maine was devastated when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the fall of 2018. She [...]
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 industry has grown organically. It dates to the mid-1970s founding of Ventrex Laboratories Inc., a diagnostic testing company [...]
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 Institute of General Medical Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, for the renewal of a [...]
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 they're meant to treat; but how can drug companies do better testing? They can start with a company [...]
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