CELEBRATING 120 YEARS OF CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE ON MAINE'S RUGGED COAST
Pioneering New Approaches in Regenerative Medicine
Research Spotlight
Making a Mouse More Like an Axolotl: How James Godwin’s Discoveries Are Helping Science ‘Pull the Levers of Regeneration’
When it comes to salamanders, observers of the natural world since the time of the ancient Greeks have wondered, Why can they regenerate their limbs and tails while humans cannot? Science is now inching closer to the answer thanks to new research by MDI Biological Laboratory scientist James Godwin, Ph.D.
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Kindling a Lifelong Love of Science
During the summer of 1969, Joan Mansfield spent five weeks working at the MDI Biological Laboratory as a high school intern. Now, 50 years later Joan is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, but she still recalls the excitement she felt that summer as she watched a cell divide under the microscope for the first time.
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