Specific receptors in the immune cells detect and generate responses to defend against the virus that causes COVID-19 — SARS-COV-2 — when it infects the body, according to University of Maine immunology expert Mumtaz Yaseen Balkhi. Using several recent studies involving human samples, cell line and nonhuman primate models, Yaseen Balkhi, an assistant research professor […]
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WMME (92 Moose in Augusta) cited statistics from the University of Maine Lobster Institute in a story about rare colored lobsters caught off the coast of Maine and New England.
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News Center Maine cited efforts by University of Maine researchers to develop new potato varieties in a story about the impact of drought on Maine’s potato industry.
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VillageSoup advanced a STEM research and career exploration course for high school students offered by the University of Maine Hutchinson Center June 28–July 30. More information about the course is online.
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In the spring of 2020, University of Maine professor of chemical and biomedical engineering William DeSisto, like a lot of people, thought more about disinfectant than he ever had previously. And not just about disinfectant itself, but also about where it comes from. When hospitals were facing urgent shortages of hand sanitizer early in the […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a University of Maine news release highlighting research findings suggesting that the sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere has exhibited seasonal variability for millennia. Dominic Winski, a UMaine research assistant professor, and Karl Kreutz, a UMaine professor, studied the chemistry of a 54,000-year-old ice core sampled from the South […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a University of Maine news release about the launch of the Maine Drug Data Hub, a new online portal that integrates information from public health, public safety, corrections and the judicial system to support analysis of drug use statistics. WVII interviewed Marcella Sorg, a University of Maine research professor, and […]
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ESPN interviewed Paul Mayewski for an article about what people learned about Mount Everest in the past 100 years. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, discussed findings from the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, particularly the pollutants found trapped in glaciers. “As they melt, they release those toxic […]
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A new online drug data hub for Maine with the potential to improve care, inform policy and ultimately save lives is the latest impactful tool in response to the state’s opioid epidemic. Maine Drug Data Hub, designed to maximize the collection of actionable data and evaluate the impact of interventions, was established through a partnership […]
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Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a University of Maine-led study. Overall, sea ice has been on the rise for about 10,000 years, but with some exceptions to this trend. Dominic Winski, a research assistant professor at the UMaine Climate […]
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