Personalized Medicine

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 [...]

Researchers have long recognized cancer is not a single disease. Rather, the term encompasses hundreds of different diseases — all with one common characteristic: unchecked [...]

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, [...]

Like the maps that drivers use to get from one place to another, the goal of a medical diagnosis is to get you from where [...]

Mayo Clinic is centralizing a critical resource on the Phoenix campus: a biospecimens facility used by researchers to develop therapeutics, vaccines, and other medical advances. [...]

Widely used sex-biased maps of molecular biology are holding back individualized medicine, say Mayo Clinic scientists. Maps clarify how places are connected.  In biology, the same [...]

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators used computer simulation and artificial intelligence to virtually screen 30 million drug candidates that may block SARS-CoV-2, the virus that [...]

The apolipoprotein E, or APOE, gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as most people who get the disease carry the gene. [...]

Toward the end of the 19th century, a French doctor named Ernest Besnier coined the term “biopsy,” combining the Greek bios (life) and opsis (a [...]

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 [...]