The Boothbay lab will use the National Science Foundation grant to build the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator in a bid to unlock more ways macroalgae and its microscopic counterpart can be used and ultimately marketed.
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The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)
Researchers revealed that the long-mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of the world’s most famous prehistoric monument came from faraway Scotland.
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MDI Bio Lab gets $19 million to boost Maine’s biomedical research, workforce
The federal grant will fund the renewal of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program, a collaboration between 17 educational and research institutions, for another 5 years.
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Launch of Maine research satellite delayed once again
Built by Maine college students, MESAT-1 will collect climate data for Maine students studying urban heat islands, phytoplankton and harmful algae blooms.
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Maine’s first satellite is ready for orbit, but launch is delayed
MESAT-1, one of 8 nano-satellites set to hitch a ride aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, will collect climate data for experiments designed by Falmouth, Fryeburg and Saco students.
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Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to ‘normal hearing levels’ in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.
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Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to ‘normal hearing levels’ in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.
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A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn’t yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
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New form of mpox found in Congo’s biggest outbreak
The disease may spread more easily spread among people but it seems to have a lower death rate, authorities said.
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Daniel Dennett, atheist philosopher guided by science, dies at 82
A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.