Cancer

While a typo in a letter or email is a problem it's not a big one, usually. But when that typo is in genetic code, ...

Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that is difficult to treat.  Its cells are skilled migrators. Their knack for infiltration makes it nearly impossible for ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, a French doctor named Ernest Besnier coined the term “biopsy,” combining the Greek bios (life) and opsis (a ...

There are times when a cell must cease its work. In an embryo, it’s when a hand must separate into fingers. In wound healing, it’s ...

Exploring the Express Route to Treating Brain Cancer A team of Mayo Clinic researchers stood by as the Exos Aerospace rocket carrying their experiment launched on Oct. 26, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is here, and it's advancing at an unprecedented pace. (Raise a bionic hand if you're imagining a robot scooting in ...

With a five-year survival rate of less than 5%, a type of pancreatic cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an urgent research priority. Now a ...

Losing more than a dozen family members to chronic hepatitis infection, liver cancer and other liver disease motivated Essa Mohamed to get a Ph.D. from Mayo Clinic Graduate ...

Nearly everyone has been affected by cancer, either through a personal diagnosis or that of a loved one. In the U.S., 1.7 million people are diagnosed ...

One April, Mayo Clinic oncologist Gerardo Colon-Otero, M.D., found himself the bearer of good and bad news. The good news was that he had discovered the cause ...