By Kevin Strange, Ph.D.
MDI Biological Laboratory President Kevin Strange, Ph.D., reflects of the life and achievements of the late Graham Shimmield, Ph.D., executive director of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and a member of the MDI Biological Laboratory Board of Scientific Counselors.
Read MoreBy James A. Coffman, Ph.D.
In this Q&A from Future Neurology, MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., talks about his research on the mechanisms by which chronic early-life stress increases the risk of disease in adulthood.
Read MoreGuest Post by Diane Atwood
In her "Catching Health" blog, freelance health and wellness writer Diane Atwood discusses research by MDI Biological Laboratory scientist James A. Coffman, Ph.D., on how exposure to stress early in life can lead to adult disease.
Read MoreBy Hermann Haller, M.D.
In this interview in Regenerative Medicine Network, an online publication, Hermann Haller, M.D., an MDI Biological Laboratory faculty member and director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Hannover Medical School in Hanover, Germany, discusses the quest to replace lost or damaged kidney tissue, or replace the kidney entirely.
Read MoreBy Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D.
MDI Biological Laboratory Assistant Professor Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D., who studies wound healing in the fruit fly, discusses the under-recognized public health threat of chronic non-healing wounds, which have been called a "silent epidemic."
Read MoreBy Isaiah Mansour
Isaiah Mansour, an undergraduate at the University of Maine, talks about how a Maine INBRE course on the molecular mechanisms of human disease at the MDI Biological Laboratory changed his life.
Read MoreBy Reid Loveless
In this excerpt from a Tedx talk at Georgia Southern University entitled “Connecting Creatively” Reid Loveless, Georgia Southern student and MDI Biological Laboratory 2016 Summer Fellow reflects on the institution's 2016 Art Meets Science exhibit.
Read MoreGuest Post by Dr. Francis Collins
In this guest post, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, discusses the research of Kenneth D. Poss, Ph.D., a 2016 visiting scientist at the MDI Biological Laboratory, on the regeneration of the spinal cord after injury in zebrafish.
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