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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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Citizens and Scientists Team Up for Community Health
The MDI Biological Laboratory partners with citizen scientists, students and teachers on hundreds of data-collection projects around the globe, from Bar Harbor to the Bahamas, Spain and beyond.
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A Busy First Year at MDI Bioscience, Capped by Support from Capitol Hill
It’s been almost a year since MDIBL announced the formation of MDI Bioscience, a new Laboratory initiative focused on using non-mammalian models for human health, such as zebrafish and C. elegans roundworms, in early-stage drug discovery and development.
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UNE, MDIBL Team up for Drinking Water Initiative
Collaboration with “Legacy Scholars” builds on the Laboratory’s “All About Arsenic” citizen science initiative
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Extraordinary Tech Opens New Frontiers in Biology
MDIBL’s new, highly-advanced lightsheet microscope is complete and in use, after years of dreaming, months of waiting, and many weeks of work. The Lab’s faculty seem a little bit awed by the possibilities. “Now the challenge is to really open up your mind,” says Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Director of the Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Aging.
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A Springboard for Science Achievement: Biomedical Education on Maine’s Coast
It’s the time of year when college students start making their summer plans – and when MDI Biological Laboratory faculty and staff start looking forward to the next season’s wave of curious, enthusiastic and inspiring summer fellows.
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HoL1day Tree
Hannah Somers, a research assistant in the Rollins lab, created this composite image of L1 C. elegans. C. elegans have four larval stages before adulthood – L1 is the first larval stage after hatching. These images were taken to understand how intermittent fasting impacts L1 C. elegans and protein translation rates. L1 C. elegans enter an ageless state of arrest when fasted, making...
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