Pioneering New Kidney-Grafting Techniques
New research published in the journal Bioengineering was led by former visiting scientists Leif Oxburgh, D.V.M., Ph.D. and Denise Marciano, M.D., Ph.D., and the MDI Bio Lab’s Iain Drummond, Ph.D. Drummond calls the challenge of getting lab-grown kidney tissue to link with an organism's circulatory system and function properly a "plumbing problem."
Continue ReadingBioME Awards $6,000 to Lab Ph.D. Candidate for Muscle Research
Romain Menard is working on age-associated muscle degeneration.
Continue ReadingA Post-Doc Builds Proto-Kidneys from Scratch
More than 30 million Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), including thousands in Maine.
Continue ReadingMDI Bio Lab Scientists Share Salamander Secrets
“AxoBase is an enabling resource. It enables biology to get done.” -- from a recent publication in the Node.
Continue ReadingLaunching Bioscience Careers at MDI Bio Lab
A growing number of graduates and post-docs are energizing the campus.
Continue ReadingThis is Why Your Gift Matters
Growing up in rural Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, Gabie Johnson never imagined her fascination with the axolotl, a salamander with amazing regenerative abilities, would lead her to a science career in Bar Harbor. Now a graduate student in the lab of MDI Bio Lab scientist Dr. James Godwin, Johnson is working to develop regenerative therapies that may...
Continue ReadingAxolotl and MDI Bio Lab Featured in Meet the Wild Things Children’s Book Series
Researchers assist writer Hayley Rocco and award-winning illustrator John Rocco.
Continue ReadingMicroscopy Momentum at MDIBL
MDIBL’s facilities and website overflow with the beautiful and sometimes startling images its scientists, staff and students produce in the course of their research with the laboratory’s battery of microscopy and transgenic animal models. One of the experts, Marko Pende, Ph.D., was recognized this month by Nikon’s international “Small World Photomicrography Competition” for making an...
Continue ReadingComparative Biology: Animal Models Strut Their Stuff
Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory use the comparative model approach to understand the basic biology of tissue regeneration and aging. Thanks to evolution and common ancestry, we humans actually share a large portion of our DNA with fish, worms, and salamanders. Humans and zebrafish, for example, share 70% of the same genes; 84% of human genes known to be associated with human disease have a zebrafish equivalent. That’s a lot of similarity.
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