Mitokine Bioscience was founded in Down East Maine in 2006 to develop a critical new treatment for diabetes. This year - 2009 - Mitokine’s treatment will be tested at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in companion dogs that are insulin dependent, a natural diabetes model. A larger canine study to meet requirements for FDA approval for a veterinary pharmaceutical product will follow. In the mean time, research at Mitokine continues to develop a similar treatment for human diabetes.

"The company received an $11,000 grant in January from the Maine Technology Institute to help develop a prototype racing shell. Tarpey said the plan involves bringing eight boats to a University of Maine laboratory in Orono and having researchers test its strength with rowers pulling oars inside."