Lab Bench to Bedside

Curious about what it's like to work in a basic science lab, Yak Nak, a first-year medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, signed on [...]

The tools of molecular medicine are designed to work in remote regions of inner space — places in the body that aren't easy to see [...]

When scientific advances burst into the news, such as a new medication to treat COVID-19 or a new concept like CRISPR for gene editing, people [...]

In March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, Anya Magnuson's own health was in crisis. The 21-year-old Minnesotan had already endured four brain surgeries, [...]

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles on caloric restriction. The first article focuses on replicating the effects of [...]

Gene expression can amplify the risk of neurodegenerative diseases for patients, but researchers are still figuring out which genes have an outsized effect on risk [...]

Mayo researchers are leading the way in identifying new concepts for healthy aging. While drugs that remove "zombie" cells are in clinical trials, a new [...]

Clearing senescent cells from the body may prove a treatment for yet another condition, one that is both rare and currently lacking in effective therapies. [...]

For the millions of people who could face a cancer diagnosis this year, it's vital to have all therapeutic options available. [...]

Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles on fasting, or caloric restriction. The other two will focus on caloric restriction for neurologic disease [...]