Innovation

Inventors and their breakthrough ideas are popular cultural touchstones in America’s history: Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod; Thomas Edison’s light bulb; the Wright brothers’ first byplane; ...

Mayo Clinic plugs into drug discovery

The research laboratory of Mayo Clinic pediatric oncologist Richard J. Bram, M.D., Ph.D., was enjoying the kind of success many researchers hope for. His team ...

Reflections on the Past – First cure with a new drug

Mayo Clinic’s role in developing the first effective tuberculosis treatment Patricia Thomas was trying to keep up her spirits. Her cough was not improving. Already thin, ...

AIDS and Its Pulmonary Threat — A Mystery Solved

Since the 1980s, pneumocystis pneumonia, or PCP, has infected thousands of HIV/AIDS patients. For nearly three decades, Mayo Clinic internist Andrew Limper, M.D., has researched ...

Bridge the Gap

The last leg of the journey from discovery to patient care may be the most difficult: traversing the commercialization gap. Unless a treatment or technology can reach medical practice, years of research may be meaningless.