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Bar Harbor, Maine, Oct. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Jackson Laboratory, an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution, today announced the appointment of Lon Cardon, Ph.D., FMedSci,...

Farmington, Conn., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- More than 157 million people in the U.S. receive their healthcare insurance through employer health plans. One potential means of enhancing...

Bar Harbor, Maine, April 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), in collaboration with several Maine regional hospitals, will provide additional coronavirus testing capacity for...

Farmington, Connecticut, Aug. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An antibody, known as IgE, is the culprit in allergic reactions to everything from peanuts to tree pollen. A kind of super-antibody, known...

Bar Harbor, Maine, July 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- How much arsenic in drinking water is toxic? Unfortunately, ‘it depends.’ Arsenic is an odorless, flavorless element that, in high...

Bar Harbor, Maine, July 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It’s long been clear that sleep and social interaction — or lack thereof — influence the use of addictive substances. But existing techniques...

Farmington, Conn., Dec. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new ally has emerged in the quest to cure cancer: man’s best friend.  The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) has unveiled the Tallwood Canine Cancer...

Farmington, Conn., Dec. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Roel Verhaak, Ph.D., is not beholden to the status quo. After all, his field, computational biology, didn’t exist, at least not formally, when he...

Farmington, Conn., Dec. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Curing Breast Cancer: When, How, and What’s Next? Progress to date: positive trends A diagnosis of breast cancer is always devastating, but...

FARMINGTON, Conn., and BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research institution, and Seven Bridges, the leading biomedical data...