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How do you starve cancer? How does the body recognize “self”? What makes cells stop producing insulin? These are some of the unanswered, but fundamental questions ...

Diane Jelinek, Ph.D., is the new dean for research at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, responsible for all Mayo research activities and programs in the state. A self-described ...

Inside a cancer cell, locked tightly within spools of genetic text, reside the origins of each malignancy. For some cancers, a few misprints here or ...

The research laboratory of Mayo Clinic pediatric oncologist Richard J. Bram, M.D., Ph.D., was enjoying the kind of success many researchers hope for. His team ...

Physicians have long known that people with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions such as lupus are more likely to die at younger ages than ...

In 1988, when counselors greeted the first patient at Mayo Clinic's new Nicotine Dependence Center, attitudes toward smoking were much different. A person could still light ...

For the man who would become one of the world's leading experts on nicotine addiction, and who founded the Nicotine Dependence Center at Mayo Clinic, ...

Only one resource in North America offers complete disease information about a real population spanning half a century. Only one repository can be used to ...

The road to developments that change medicine is littered with seemingly great ideas. In the early stages, that road meanders like a mountain trail with ...

Nearly everyone knows someone with diabetes — it's hard not to. In the United States, 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 6 children have ...