In light of the pandemic, addressing conditions like obesity that can lead to higher rates of hospitalizations and death is more important than ever. According to researchers from the University of Maine School of Nursing, the key to managing the obesity epidemic in Maine lies in better state and federal policies and incentives, as well […]
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Knowridge Science Report shared information about a study led by scientists from the University of Maine that found using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure, and vitamin B may be especially useful in the management of drug-resistant high blood pressure. The research is published in the American […]
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Northern Light Health will host its sixth annual Research Expo on Wednesday, May 25. The Expo, with a theme of innovation, will feature four Zoom-based virtual sessions and online poster presentations from 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m. All sessions are free; registration is required. Session two from 1–1:55 p.m. will feature University of Maine faculty members — […]
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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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MedicalResearch.com interviewed Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at the School of Food and Agriculture, about her research on the wound-healing power of phenolic extract from wild blueberries. Klimis-Zacas said, “Discovering new therapeutic modalities for wound healing, especially plant extracts will aid millions of people by decreasing chronic wound complications and amputation with subsequent effects […]
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Verve Times, R1 News, ZME Science, AZO Life Sciences, New Atlas, International Business Times,Medical Xpress, ScienMag, SciTech Daily, News Medical, Ruetir, Knowridge Science Report and the American Physiological Society highlighted research conducted by a group led by Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture. The researchers […]
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The University of Maine has achieved full, endorsed membership in the Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network. The AFU Global Network, led by Dublin City University, is supported in the United States by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. The AFU initiative promotes maximizing the intergenerational appeal of higher education programming through a 10-principle framework, […]
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Muscular Dystrophy News Today, Lab+Life Scientist, Science Daily, Latestly, The News Headline, News Azi, Hindustan Times, FOX 22 Bangor, Devdiscourse, The Print, India.com and Today Headline reported on a University of Maine study that shows certain activities may help strengthen muscles affected by muscular dystrophy. The researchers used a process called neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), which […]
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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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