MaineBiz featured health care startups and spin-offs coming out of the University of Maine, like WAVED Medical, Neuright and MedRhythms. “UMaine is seeing an increase in innovations and startups in biomedical technology. Some of that stems from our growing support of research commercialization, but it also is the fruit of seeds planted over the last […]
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University of Maine associate professor of biomedical engineering Caitlin Howell will deliver a talk during the National Academy of Engineering’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based symposium Sept. 21–23 in Seattle. Howell is one of 84 highly accomplished, early-career engineers from academia, industry and government invited to participate in the two-and-a-half day event […]
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Tolu Adekeye, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, has been named a finalist in the American Society for Nutrition’s (ASN) Young Minority Investigator Oral Competition, an educational activity that recognizes young investigators from underrepresented communities within the biomedical and life sciences presenting outstanding research. The five finalists will be […]
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Jared Talbot wants to share zebrafish with the scientific community — and now he has an award to prove it. Talbot came to the University of Maine as an assistant professor in 2019 and is now one of five researchers at the university who specializes in using zebrafish as a model organism for scientific studies […]
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Muscular dystrophy is a debilitating disease that causes the weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles that progressively worsens over time. According to a team of University of Maine researchers, certain activities may help strengthen muscles affected by muscular dystrophy — and they figured it out by stimulating zebrafish and watching them work out. Zebrafish are […]
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Research published by Joshua Kelley, University of Maine assistant professor of biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, and the graduate student Katherine Jarvis has been named one of the top 100 downloaded microbiology papers for Scientific Reports for 2021. The paper, “Temporal dynamics of viral load and false negative rate influence the […]
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Kristy Townsend, University of Maine alumna and former faculty member, and cofounder of Neuright Inc., will lead a discussion, “Neuright Inc. Tackles Peripheral Neuropathy — Catch It Early, Fix It Fast,” as part of the Innovation Blender series sponsored by MaineHealth Innovation and The Roux Institute. The event is noon–12:45 p.m. EST March 15 via […]
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Medical Xpress shared a news release about a new peer-reviewed editorial in the American Journal of Hypertension from University of Maine and University of Arkansas researchers. In the piece, they argued that using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure and may be especially useful in the management […]
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Using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure and may be especially useful in the management of drug-resistant hypertension, according to researchers at the University of Maine and University of Arkansas. UMaine emeritus professor of psychology Merrill Elias, who also is emeritus cooperating professor in the Graduate School […]
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ScienceDaily, India.com, The Indian Express, the Times of India, the Times of Oman, The Siasat Daily, The Times, the News Tribune, the New Daily the Miami Herald, the Central Valley Business Journal the Daily Express, the Grand Forks Herald, Best Life and Clean Eating magazine advanced a study from University of Maine and University of […]
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