MDI Biological Laboratory launches new drug discovery initiative
MDI Bioscience will improve efficiency and better inform early decision-making in drug development. Led by Jim Strickland, a biopharma entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience, MDI Bioscience will utilize MDIBL's expertise in comparative biology to develop new tools to speed the drug discovery process and minimize the risks involved in bringing new drugs to market.
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MDIBL’s Work in 2022 Includes a New Way To Prevent COVID-19 Infection
Over the course of the year just past, MDI Biological Laboratory’s researchers continued to push the frontiers in the biology of aging, repair, and regeneration, expanding our knowledge of how to protect and extend healthy lifespans.
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More Graduate Students, More Groundbreaking Science at MDIBL
The MDI Biological Laboratory’s research and education capacity leapt forward in 2022 with expansion of our graduate programs.
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2022 MDI Biological Laboratory Publications
In 2022 MDI Biological Laboratory’s researchers continued to push into new scientific frontiers in the biology of aging, repair and regeneration, expanding our knowledge of how to protect and extend healthy lifespans.
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Three Co-Lin biomedical research students complete prestigious internships
Kiera Hemanas used state-of-the-art research tools such as CRISPR and fluorescent microscopy in her research in the Updike lab.
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This Citizen Science Project Is Taking On Roadkill — and Potentially Saving Animals
Project Roadkill Reports asks volunteers to note where they see roadkill to one day design better policies to prevent animals from getting struck by vehicles.
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Free home-test kits available to test well water for arsenic
Bar Harbor Health Officer Mike Gurtler is leading a new effort to test all the town’s residential wells for arsenic. Free home-test kits will be available at the municipal building.
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$600k for MDI Biological Laboratory Startup included in Congressional Spending Bill
Initiative Will Speed Drug Development with Unique Animal Models for Human Health
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Scientists Reveal an Unexpected Gene in Worms
Human homolog in C. elegans opens new research window for diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer’s
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