Innovation

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 ...

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 Mayo ...

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 the ...

Mayo Clinic researcher and ophthalmologist Raymond Iezzi, M.D., rescues sight. He combines precise surgical techniques with technology like bionics, biosensors and femtosecond lasers to help ...