Obesity

Is it noise or size? That's a key question for researchers looking to understand how fat tissue affects health. In a new publication, Mayo Clinic ...

As the last two years have demonstrated, stressful situations often require trade-offs. For some, the COVID-19 pandemic meant a shift in their primary focus on ...

In a recent paper published in Cell Reports, Mayo Clinic scientists found that a sensory device on cells determines if a fat cell burns fat ...

While a typo in a letter or email is a problem it's not a big one, usually. But when that typo is in genetic code, ...

Several years ago, a surgeon checked on his patient and was pleased to find her sipping hot coffee in her hospital bed just one day ...

There are times when a cell must cease its work. In an embryo, it’s when a hand must separate into fingers. In wound healing, it’s ...

With obesity, good advice only goes so far. What’s good for one person hasn’t turned out to be good for all, and it’s left patients and physicians adrift. ...

Want to get healthy? Try diet and exercise. Americans age 50 and younger — especially people with obesity — hear this recommendation frequently. But for older individuals healthy ...

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 ...

Biobanks preserve our body's knowledge so it can pay dividends in the future.   Since antiquity physicians have analyzed patient specimens to diagnose ...