While the bacteria in the intestine are helpful for digesting food and fighting infections, they have long been suspected to play an essential role in ...
As a pulmonologist and genomic scientist, Victor Ortega, M.D., Ph.D., is leading a charge to breathe new life into precision medicine advancements. His mission is ...
Standing at the forefront of Mayo Clinic's genomics advancements, Yan Asmann, Ph.D., and Aaron Mansfield, M.D. are working to tailor the diagnosis and treatment of ...
By Marla Broadfoot, Ph.D. When Fouad Chebib, M.D., was 16 years old, his father sat him and his sister down and told them he had polycystic kidney disease (PKD). ...
When Emery Diffendorfer was a baby, he couldn't hold his head up or babble like other infants his age. His rare genetic disorder enlarged his ...
Using human "mini-brain" models known as organoids, Mayo Clinic and Yale University scientists have discovered that the roots of autism spectrum disorder may be associated ...
Ryan Carr, M.D., Ph.D., a medical oncologist in Mayo Clinic's Department of Oncology, is a recipient of the 2023 Gerstner Family Career Development Award. The ...
Patrizia Mondello, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., a physician-scientist in Mayo Clinic's Department of Hematology, is a recipient of the annual 2023 Gerstner Family Career Development Award ...
Jon Stahlecker had exhausted all treatment options and lost hope of surviving chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) before the Mayo Clinic offered him chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell ...
In a pilot study of 165 people, Mayo Clinic researchers looked at the effectiveness of two different approaches to weight loss: a standard lifestyle intervention ...
Mayo Clinic scientists are building an expansive library of DNA blueprints of disease-causing bacterial species. The unique collection of genomic sequences is serving as a reference database to help doctors provide rapid and precise diagnoses and pinpoint targeted treatments to potentially improve patient outcomes.
July 12, Episode 11: 'Xenotransplantation and Regenerative Therapeutics What if we could replace diseased or damaged organs and other body parts with new lab-created versions? How ...