Tag: Microalgae
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Algae Biomass Summit: The Potential of Algae
Food. Feed. Fuels. Biomaterials. Nutraceuticals. Environmental solutions. The potential of algae stretches across industries. On October 14 at 11 a.m., one of the sessions at…
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Tapping into Algae’s Limitless Potential
One of the services offered by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences’s National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) is growing large-scale algae cultures in…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: August 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Positioning Maine as a National Blue Biotech Leader
Given Maine’s scalable aquaculture industry and heritage fisheries, long history of marine research excellence, unique algae innovation assets, and proximity to Boston’s life sciences hub,…
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Medicine. Law. Algae?
This summer, Bigelow Laboratory welcomed eight students for an internship exploring algae innovation as a potential career path. The MARIA internship gives marine biology students…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: May 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Maine Seaweed Week Leadership
Seaweed. Some see weeds. At Bigelow Laboratory, we see abundant opportunities for Maine. As a world-renowned hub for research and technology focused on seaweed and…
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Algae on the Airwaves
On April 20, Bigelow Laboratory senior research scientists Mike Lomas and Nichole Price joined Maine Calling to discuss algae and seaweed innovation to kick off…
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Colby College: Jan Plan Course Explores Algae’s Possibilities
Colby College students are collaborating with Bigelow Laboratory and MDI Biological Laboratory through the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator (MARIA), exploring how algae can…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: February 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Mainebiz: Kittery startup wants to build Maine’s first seaweed ‘biorefinery’
Check out this Mainebiz article featuring Atlantic BlueBio, which was recently accepted to the Maine Blue Biotech Studio organized by Bigelow Laboratory and Hatch Blue!…
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Culture Curious?
Advance your skills with the National Center of Marine Algae and Microbiota’s (NCMA) Algal Culturing Techniques Course, a week-long professional development experience led by expert…
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Glowing and Growing
On Thursday, Research Technician Lydia Pinard snapped a stunning sunrise illuminating the Pavlova and Nannochloropsis cultures in Bigelow Laboratory‘s greenhouse. Thanks for sharing, Lydia, and…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: January 2026
Maine researchers and entrepreneurs are unlocking the potential of algae, seaweed, shellfish, and marine microbes to develop novel products and materials. These blue biotechnology innovations…
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#MicroMonday: Festive, Yet Toxic
Merry #MicroMonday! Check out this light microscopy of Pseudo-nitzschia australis cells collected off the coast of Maine during the 2016 bloom, the first time that…
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Keeping Clear of Bad Blooms
Toxic species of algae like Pseudo-nitzschia australis can have devastating impacts on coastal industries and communities — a lesson Maine communities learned first hand in…
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Co-Co-Co! ❄️
‘Tis the 🌊SEA-son to get festive with a brand-new Bigelow Laboratory coccolithophore ornament! Now available in the online shop, this ornament features our logo on…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: November 2025
Maine researchers and entrepreneurs are unlocking the potential of algae, seaweed, shellfish, and marine microbes to develop novel products and materials. These blue biotechnology innovations…
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Chromatic Curiosity
Bigelow Laboratory continued celebrating Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME)’s #MaineBioscienceDay with a visit to Durham Community School, where Research Technician Lydia Pinard painted a vivid…
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#MicroMonday: Teeny, Tiny Bubbles
Now that daylight saving time has ended and the days are growing shorter, you might be searching for some bright, hopeful cheer. Bigelow Laboratory has…