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 [...]