Innovation

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that in 2018, over 10 million teens and adults misused opioids. The prescription of opioids to treat patient ...

Many viruses are drawn to cancer like iron filings to a magnet. Why not put these viruses to use — finding, infecting and killing cancer ...

Joline E. Brandenburg, M.D., devotes her workday at Mayo Clinic to treating children with cerebral palsy. At home, she cares for her 11-year-old daughter, who ...

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 ...

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 can't manage what 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 studying ...

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