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Mourning the Passing of Graham Shimmield

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.

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Other

Q&A with James A. Coffman, Ph.D.: Early-Life Stress in Adult Illness

By 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.

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Aging, Regenerative Biology

Zebrafish May Hold the Answer to Why Early-Life Stress Can Make You Sick When You’re an Adult

Guest 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.

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Aging, Regenerative Biology

Seeking to Regenerate a Kidney from Scratch

By 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.

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Kidney Disease, Regenerative Biology

Nonhealing Wounds: An Under-Recognized and Growing Threat to Public Health

By 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."

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Regenerative Biology, Wound Healing

Give the Gift of Discovery

By 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.

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Forging Connections ‘At a Very Human Speed’: Reflections on Art and Science at the MDI Biological Laboratory

By 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.

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Art Meets Science, Education

New Clue from Fish About Healing Spinal Cord Injuries

Guest 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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Regenerative Biology, Spinal Cord Regeneration

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