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Measles has long been our enemy but with modification it transforms into a weapon against ovarian cancer. Rene Maleski knew it was bad news when the ...

The recent measles outbreak in Minnesota reached an unfortunate milestone (and extensive national news coverage) on June 1, 2017 when it exceeded the total number ...

Space—with near-zero gravity, no atmosphere, and extremes of heat and cold—is an unusual and often hostile environment. But it’s also an opportunity—for medical researchers ...

Immunotherapy offers new drugs and drug delivery to help the body's "janitor" with its job. The response of the immune system to cancer is ...

Renaissance means rebirth or regeneration. Every few generations medicine takes a major turn. We’re at one of those junctures now with regenerative medicine — where ...

Thanks to the generosity of patients participating in research, benefactor funding, and the dedication of Mayo researchers, people managing primary sclerosing cholangitis in the present ...

Medical research scientists, academics and clinicians mingled with entrepreneurs and patient advocates at the World Stem Cell Summit last December in West Palm Beach, Florida. ...

A clinician teams up with basic scientists to learn how toxic RNA short-circuits corneal cells The eye’s outermost tissue, the cornea, is a bit ...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Investigate Innovations in Heart Transplant As a science writer, I’m typically juggling a recorder, a note pad and a pen. Sometimes ...

Cancer’s prescient genetic wiring For the better part of a century, brain tumors have been judged by their appearance. Where a tumor was located, ...