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For the millions of people who have migraine, the search for pain relief can feel like a nightmare game. “Spin the wheel, see what drug you ...

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 ...

Some 10 trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live on or in us — primarily in our gut but also our mouth, airway, on our ...

Neuroscientist Tania Gendron, Ph.D. was in her lab on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus when she received a phone call. On the line was a neurologist ...

This story starts with melanoma. The name of this cancer tells us it grows from skin cells called melanocytes. When these cells break, normal controls ...

Space travel is known to cause wear and tear on astronauts’ bodies, but it’s still not clear how radiation exposure in space affects the function ...

When healthy aging is the research goal, scientists benefit from a tenacious mindset. For one researcher, that’s not a problem. Nearly 30 years ago Mayo's ...

Complex medical issues like transplants, kidney disease, and cancer may be helped by knowing more about how cells communicate. When scientists are lucky, what ...

Epilepsy strikes without warning, when an electrical storm sweeps across the brain. Storm-chasing teams of researchers have adopted computational techniques to pinpoint and predict seizure ...

A state-funded partnership between Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota has upped the ante in high-stakes biomedical research. Stephen Brimijoin, Ph.D., a Mayo ...