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Jackson Lab adds COVID-19 to 2021 research slate BAR HARBOR — The Jackson Laboratory has received millions of dollars in grants for its research projects across a range of fields: Alzheimer’s, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and — COVID-19. The research institute pivoted last year to help with the COVID-19 effort, including processing tests for 60,000 Mainers at its Farmington, Conn., campus. It also offered cryopreservation services for mouse models to universities, freezing mouse sperm and eggs in tanks of liquid nitrogen. But the 70-plus researchers and faculty housed ...

Gov. Janet Mills is revising the state’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan to expand who is included in the current phase, 1A, and who comes next, in

Jackson Lab lands more than $100M in grants ELLSWORTH — The Jackson Laboratory received over $100 million in 2020 from new federal grants awarded for research and education programs across a range of fields: Alzheimer’s, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and COVID-19. The research institute pivoted last year to help with the COVID-19 effort, including processing tests for 60,000 Mainers at its Farmington, Conn., campus. It also offered cryopreservation services for mouse models to universities, freezing mouse sperm and eggs in tanks of liquid nitrogen. But the 70-plus researc...

Jackson Laboratory receives $9.5 million more in funding in 2020 than in 2019 The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor received about $110 million in funding from more than 200 different grant awards in 2020. Author: Chloe Teboe (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 9:07 AM EST January 8, 2021 Updated: 9:10 AM EST January 8, 2021 BAR HARBOR, Maine — Like so many other things, the future of funding at the Jackson Laboratory was unclear at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The lab, which is known for breeding mice used in studies worldwide and even at...

January 1st, 2021 | by: Stu Marckoon Trenton Withdrawal (Trenton) – A group studying school funding in Trenton has urged the town to withdraw from AOS 91 which includes the four towns on Mt. Desert Island.  The Ellsworth American reports the town’s School Evaluation Options Committee made its recommendation to the Board of Selectmen this week, and also urged the Trenton School Committee to take a no confidence vote against the superintendent of schools.    The group is not an official town government committee, and says it is looking for ways to try to save money on edu...