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Cindy Tofthagen, Ph.D., a full-time researcher in the Division of Nursing Research, studies ways to improve cancer care. In particular, she aims to find effective [...]

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 [...]

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

If you watched "Top Gun: Maverick" this summer, you saw a fictional portrayal of how fighter pilots can perform incredible aerial maneuvers at high G-forces, [...]

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, [...]

For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Evans, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic scientist, has pushed to expand gene therapy beyond its original scope of treating [...]

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 [...]

It's a long way to Mars. And nearly all the journey is outside of Earth's semiprotective atmosphere. Even the International Space Station, 248 miles up, is [...]

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 [...]

Outbreaks of COVID-19 infection spread while SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, evolves and circulates around the world. Given time, genetic mutations occur in the [...]