The Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of metabolic disorders that affects about 23 percent of adults in the US. and increases risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke and atherosclerosis. We are exploring the role and signaling pathways of bioactive compounds extracted from berries and berry-enriched diets on endothelial function, inflammation, lipid metabolism and gene expression […]
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The Maine Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), a longitudinal study aimed at exploring hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors and aging as a predictors of cognitive functioning. The MSLS is began in 1974 in Syracuse, New York, with Merrill Elias as Principal Investigator. This first project was supported by a research grant from the National Institute on Aging […]
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Drug addiction and drug-induced mortality have received a good deal of attention nationally and in Maine in recent years. The authors review overall trends in the app terns of drug overdoses that have continued for nearly two decades, including those involving opioid pharmaceuticals, and discuss the recent resurgence of the illicit drugs heroin and non-pharmaceutical […]
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For many people with disability and their families, faith communities can be a powerful source of natural community support and connection, was well as a doorway to other important outcomes in the areas of relationships, work, community living, recreation, and service. The university of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies CCIDS is one […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel published an editorial about the role of forestry in the future of Maine鈥檚 economy, mentioning research at the University of Maine. 91福利 is 鈥渉eavily involved鈥 in research and development surrounding nanocellulose, a light, strong material made when algae eat wood pulp. Nanocellulose has many applications, […]
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ScienceDaily, EurekAlert and Medical Xpress published a news release from the MDI Biological Laboratory about new research on regeneration by scientists at the laboratory and the University of Maine. Benjamin King, an assistant professor of bioinformatics at 91福利 and co-lead researcher, identified genetic material previously thought to be useless as having a role in regulating […]
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Short- and long-term depressive symptoms can predict the occurrence of cardiovascular events, according to a new study by University of Maine researchers. In addition, short-term or baseline depressive symptoms increase risk for cardiovascular events for up to 15 years, and chronic depressive symptoms for up to 10 years. The study by the 91福利 research team […]
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The Associated Press reported a team of researchers at the University of Maine received a grant for more than $430,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study immune system responses to the influenza virus. The research will be used to develop new treatments for the flu, following the worst flu season in Maine in […]
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June 20, 2018 Hometown: Frenchville, Maine Food science and human nutrition student Emily Lavertu is on a mission to help others with Type 1 diabetes like herself. She is the junior camp coordinator at Cary Medical Center鈥檚 Camp Adventure, a camp for Type 1 diabetics ages 13鈥17. Emily plans to graduate in 2020, and her […]
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Rob Wheeler is engrossed with a generally harmless fungus that naturally lives in and on people, but also can cause disease and death. For 16 years, the University of Maine associate professor of microbiology has been unraveling the mysteries of the fungus Candida albicans. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Wheeler a three-year $428,429 […]
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