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Senator Collins Visits Institute
(Bangor, Maine) – Senator Susan Collins toured the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health on Monday, August 9th, to learn about the environmental oncology research, pediatric neurogenetic work and the economic development activities of the organization.
Mapping Cancer
By Meg Haskell BDN Staff
What is the relationship between Maine’s lung cancer cases and the location of the state’s craggy granite outcroppings? Why is the incidence of melanoma — a life-threatening cancer of the skin linked to prolonged exposure to sunlight — not highest along the lobster coast, as public health experts might predict, but rather in-land, in the forested foothills of Maine’s western mountains? Is there a connection between rates of breast and prostate cancers and the hormone-disrupting properties of arsenic found in natural deposits — as well as in industrial spills and dumps — around the state?
Governor and Maine Technology Institute Announce $25 Million in Maine Technology Asset Fund Awards
(Augusta, ME) -- Governor John E. Baldacci and Maine Technology Institute (MTI) President Betsy Biemann on June 9, 2009 announced that the MTI Board of Directors has approved a total of $25 million in awards to 16 applicants across Maine. Legislators and representatives from organizations receiving the awards attended the State House event to release the list.
