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Nearly 25 years ago, a 10-year-old boy was admitted to Mayo Clinic Children's Center after being rescued from the bottom of [...]

In the years since AIDS was first described in medical research, the scientific map of that disease has changed enormously. Once it was relatively [...]

Exosomes, a new tool in regenerative research, have implications for cardiac and tendon regeneration, wound healing, and incontinence, as well as many other applications. In the [...]

No champion race car driver can win without a dedicated pit crew. The same is true in medical research. Thanks to their “pit crew” Mayo [...]

Experimental Treatment Pivots in Record Time At the beginning of 2020, everyone in research and medicine who could pivot to focus on COVID-19 did. Scientists and [...]

Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek spotted "animalcules" with his first crude microscope lens, microscopy has been a mainstay of the science of small. In the [...]

Humanity has taken on infectious agents, such as the virus that causes smallpox, and won. But cheer quietly. Smallpox eradication took

A year after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S., more than 26 million Americans are confirmed to have had this [...]

Current experimental treatments for COVID-19 focus on two targets: the virus or the immune system.  On the immune system side, the number of experimental treatments [...]

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mayo Clinic announce news of a proof-of-concept patch for surgical and emergency situations where stitches or staples would [...]