Innovation

The Division of Engineering arose at Mayo Clinic pretty much the first time a clinician needed an instrument and didn't have time to order it [...]

Surgeon Heidi Nelson, M.D. wanted advice on making surgery safer. Not for patients this time, but for surgeons and their teams. "We [...]

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 [...]

This is a companion to the story, Recruiting Microbes to Fight Autoimmune Diseases Researchers in Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine Microbiome Program are [...]

Some 10 trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live on or in us — primarily in our gut but also our mouth, airway, on our [...]

Epilepsy strikes without warning, when an electrical storm sweeps across the brain. Storm-chasing teams of researchers have adopted computational techniques to pinpoint and predict seizure [...]

A state-funded partnership between Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota has upped the ante in high-stakes biomedical research. Stephen Brimijoin, Ph.D., a [...]

A researcher and her team to journey in search of a worthy goal: better care for patients with lymphoma.   When she began practicing medicine, Lisa Rimsza, [...]

When it comes to treating tumors deep in the brain, such as those near the thalamus and basal ganglia, surgery has long presented a significant [...]

Combining innovative Mayo Clinic labs with medical businesses and creative start-up companies will help Rochester — and benefit patients. Outside his office in [...]