{"id":2302,"date":"2026-08-27T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:05:29","slug":"positioning-maine-as-the-blue-biotech-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Positioning Maine as a National Blue Biotech Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:ugcPost:7496467197389828098?compact=1\" height=\"399\" width=\"504\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" title=\"Embedded post\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given Maine\u2019s scalable aquaculture industry and heritage fisheries, long history of marine research excellence, unique algae innovation assets, and proximity to Boston\u2019s life sciences hub, the state is well positioned to be a national leader in emerging blue biotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why earlier this year, <strong>Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences<\/strong> partnered with <strong>Hatch Blue<\/strong> to host the inaugural <strong>Maine Blue Biotech Studio<\/strong>. With support from <strong>Maine Technology Institute<\/strong>, the program assembled 10 companies working across health and wellness products, agriculture biostimulants and feed additives, novel reagents, and other areas to help them move from early stages to commercial scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about the program and what it could mean for the next generation of biotechnology. Spoiler alert: opportunity runs deep, and this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hatch.blue\/news\/maine-a-natural-hub-for-blue-biotechnology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Insights from Hatch Blue&#8217;s Leah Davis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given Maine\u2019s scalable aquaculture industry and heritage fisheries, long history of marine research excellence, unique algae innovation assets, and proximity to Boston\u2019s life sciences hub, the state is well positioned to be a national leader in emerging blue biotechnology. That\u2019s why earlier this year, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences partnered with Hatch Blue to host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,16,71,18,19],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-oceans-potential","tag-beth-orcutt","tag-biotech","tag-blue-economy","tag-maine","tag-microalgae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}