Items Tagged ‘infections’

February 11, 2020

7 ways Mayo Clinic is leading to cure, connect and transform health care

By Susan Murphy Susan Murphy (@susanmurphy)

  Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine’s physicians and researchers are leading the way to cure, connect and transform health care by combining their expertise to solve serious or complex medical conditions. Here are seven innovative ways the Center’s investigators are working together to provide patients with answers, treatment options and optimism.   Cultivating cutting-edge […]

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Tags: Biobank, cancer, cancer genomics, Epigenomics, Genomic Sequencing, infections, microbiome, rare disease


September 3, 2019

Shotgun metagenomics: A promising new method toward diagnosing infections

By Sharon Rosen Sharon Rosen (@sharonhrosen)

Article by Christoph Bahn This article originally appeared on Mayo Clinic Laboratories Insights. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing (aka “shotgun metagenomics”) is a revolutionary new way to detect infectious organisms. Currently, this technology is undergoing validation for clinical testing in Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. By sequencing all of the DNA (or RNA in some instances) in […]

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Tags: center for individualized medicine, diagnostic testing, Dr. Matthew Abdel, Dr. Robin Patel, genomics, infections, joint replacements, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, medical research, metagenomics, microrganisms


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