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UMBC scientist launches company to commercialize new oral vaccine to save fish industry millions
Every year, millions of fish raised in aquaculture die of nervous necrosis virus (NNV). “The disease affects the brain, and the fish lose their vision and balance,” says Vikram Vakharia, professor...
Posted: August 11, 2016, 9:10 PM
UMBC Ph.D. student makes surprise discovery of natural back-up system in fish reproduction
What happens when a scientist gets a research result that flies in the face of their expectations? More research leading to new, compelling discoveries. Yonathan Zohar’s lab at the Institute of...
Posted: July 15, 2016, 6:11 PM
The Economist features UMBC’s revolutionary land-based aquaculture
UMBC Professor Yonathan Zohar, chair of marine biotechnology, is featured in a new issue of The Economist focused on the future or agricultural technologies. Zohar’s research seeks to...
Posted: June 13, 2016, 8:08 PM
Olivia Spicer follows passion for biotechnology to continue groundbreaking hormone research
Olivia Spicer Ph.D., Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences Cum Laude Hometown: Bayou Vista, Louisiana Plans: Biotechnology researcher The faculty at UMBC have allowed me to travel...
Posted: April 24, 2016, 6:48 PM
UMBC heads to Light City Baltimore: festival of light, music, innovation
Baltimore’s history as the first U.S. city to be illuminated by gas lamps has inspired Light City Baltimore, a major new public festival celebrating innovation and creativity across technology and...
Posted: March 22, 2016, 9:29 PM
Yoni Zohar explains how his lab became the first to farm bluefin tuna in land-based aquaculture
UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar, professor and chair of marine biotechnology, offers a glimpse into his groundbreaking work farming bluefin tuna in land-based aquaculture through a new, in-depth interview...
Posted: February 22, 2016, 5:47 PM
UMBC researchers raise Atlantic bluefin tuna on land for first time in North America
A team of UMBC researchers has made history by successfully raising Atlantic bluefin tuna from eggs to juvenile stage in a recirculating, land-based mariculture system for the first time in North...
Posted: November 21, 2015, 2:52 AM
Yoni Zohar says FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon could have environmental benefits
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first genetically modified animal for sale as food: AquaAdvantage salmon,. The FDA determined that the salmon is not biologically...
Posted: November 20, 2015, 7:13 PM
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