Individualized Medicine

The apolipoprotein E, or APOE, gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as most people who get the disease carry the gene. ...

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 ...

Several years ago, a surgeon checked on his patient and was pleased to find her sipping hot coffee in her hospital bed just one day ...

Across the world, an estimated 300 million people live with one or more of over 7,000 identified rare diseases. For them, their family, friends and ...

With obesity, good advice only goes so far. What’s good for one person hasn’t turned out to be good for all, and it’s left patients and physicians adrift. ...

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 ...

Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Regeneron, a leading science and technology company, to generate whole exome sequencing and genotype data of 100,000 DNA samples from consented participants ...

The current diagnostic tools in a pathologist’s arsenal sometimes cannot provide a clear distinction between primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (one of the few lymphomas more common in ...

In the winter of 2014, staff of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit had a serious problem. Researchers at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Saint Marys ...

One emerging approach in the diagnosis of cancer is known as a “liquid biopsy.” Instead of using a tiny snippet of tissue to characterize and ...