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MDI Biological Laboratory Researchers Develop New Zebrafish Model to Study Muscle Atrophy

Associate Professor Romain Madelaine, Ph.D., doctoral candidate Romain Menard, and colleagues at the MDI Biological Laboratory have developed a new transgenic zebrafish model to study muscle atrophy, a condition associated with aging and neuromuscular disease. In a study published in PLOS Genetics, the research team describes the creation of the “atrofish,” a zebrafish engineered to […]

UMaine awarded $11.3 million from NIH to support biomedical research

The University of Maine has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from outside the cells, from the impact of persistent […]

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