Lab Bench to Bedside

Charlotte Brown first discovered her passion for medicine through books. "I've always been a voracious reader. As a child, I dreamt of becoming a neurosurgeon ...

Vaccines have protected people from deadly diseases for generations. Could they also help fight cancer?   Mayo Clinic researchers are working to develop personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines ...

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 fasting. The final article ...

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. ...