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The Division of Engineering arose at Mayo Clinic pretty much the first time a clinician needed an instrument and didn't have time to order it ...

Surgeon Heidi Nelson, M.D. wanted advice on making surgery safer. Not for patients this time, but for surgeons and their teams. "We can't manage what we ...

Fishing them out of a drink, you may not see the benefit of fruit flies. But they are a vital scientific model, and at Mayo ...

Ouch! The response is always the same to the sharp, sudden surprise of a paper cut. The body responds quickly to the tear in the ...

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 ...