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UMF professor receives NSF grant

FARMINGTON University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) biology professor Dr. Timothy Breton has received a highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant for $551,599. The three-year NSF research project will begin in fall 2023 and continue Breton’s 2021 groundbreaking work on hormone receptors when he discovered a new gene with potential biomedical and […] ....

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UMF professor receives $551,599 NSF grant for college and early college student research on new hormone system

FARMINGTON University of Maine at Farmington biology professor Dr. Timothy Breton has received a highly competitive National Science Foundation research ....

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UMF Professor Dr. Timothy Breton receives $551,599 NSF grant for college and early college student research on new hormone system

FARMINGTON - University of Maine at Farmington biology professor Dr. Timothy Breton has received a highly competitive National Science Foundation research grant for $551,599. The three-year NSF research project will begin in fall 2023 and continue Breton’s 2021 groundbreaking work on hormone receptors when he discovered a new gene with potential biomedical and commercial uses. ....

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Collective worm and robot 'blobs' protect individuals, swarm together


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VIDEO: Individually, California blackworms live an unremarkable life eating microorganisms in ponds and serving as tropical fish food for aquarium enthusiasts. But together, tens, hundreds, or thousands of the centimeter-long creatures.
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Credit: Georgia Tech, Brice Zimmerman and Christopher Moore
Individually, California blackworms live an unremarkable life eating microorganisms in ponds and serving as tropical fish food for aquarium enthusiasts. But together, tens, hundreds, or thousands of the centimeter-long creatures can collaborate to form a worm blob, a shape-shifting living liquid that collectively protects its members from drying out and helps them escape threats such as excessive heat. ....

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