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A New Community: Learning Killifish Husbandry on MDI
Justin Kenney, Ph.D., works with zebrafish in his research program at Wayne State University in Detroit. His focus has been using zebrafish to study the biological mechanisms that underlie individual differences in behavior, specifically risk taking. He and his lab also develop…
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Anindita Neog Looks to Zebrafish for Answers
Anindita Neog’s father lives with diabetic retinopathy, a condition that damages the blood vessels in the retina. It is a leading cause of vision loss in people with diabetes, and it is why she has spent much of the last two and a half years trying to understand the most minute…
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AlphaFold AI Program Reshapes Research
Proteins are the working machinery of every cell, and their shape largely determines what they do. But for decades, learning the shape of a single protein was a major, even onerous undertaking. Scientists typically coaxed cells to make large quantities of a particular protein,…
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Double Duty: A Shared DNA Sequence’s Unexpected Role in Gene Expression
Scientists at MDI Biological Laboratory and Hannover Medical School have found that a single stretch of DNA in the fruit fly genome does something unexpected: it can produce two entirely different molecules with two entirely different jobs. One molecule acts as a tumor…
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Paying Forward an Opportunity
I came to MDI Bio Lab as a Summer Student Fellow in 2013, just after graduating from high school and before I had fully understood what a life in science could look like. I was from rural Maine, early in my training, and still trying to imagine the kind of future I might build.…
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Sonia Sandhi’s Journey to a Ph.D. in Aging Research
We caught up with Sonia just before she presented her research on sex differences on muscle aging to the annual Meeting of the Corporation. She spoke about her remarkable journey from modest circumstances in her native India to the highest levels of academic achievement, with a…
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MDI Biological Laboratory Receives Historic Archive of Award-Winning Scientific Films
Produced in Dr. Beeuwkes’ laboratory at Harvard Medical School, an archive of 16mm scientific films documenting the microscopic blood vessels of the human kidney and heart represent a landmark in the visual documentation of human anatomy and remain relevant to biomedical…
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The Maine INBRE: Shaping Maine’s “Scientific Identity” for 25 Years
Led by MDI Bio Lab and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the program has grown since 2001 to include 17 university, college and independent research institutions that span the state, now including every campus of the University of Maine system. The anniversary event…
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Leading Research and Media Communicator Joins Board of Trustees
Jennifer Benz, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Media Research at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC), and Director of the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Benz co-founded the center and built it…