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Many viruses are drawn to cancer like iron filings to a magnet. Why not put these viruses to use — finding, infecting and killing cancer ...

Within each of the body’s tiny cells are dozens to tens of dozens of even tinier mitochondria. These organelles (“little organs”) convert fuel from the ...

Joline E. Brandenburg, M.D., devotes her workday at Mayo Clinic to treating children with cerebral palsy. At home, she cares for her 11-year-old daughter, who ...

Aging is a natural and inevitable part of the lifespan; it’s also at the nexus of many chronic diseases including cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. The emerging field of geroscience is ...

As we age and forget why we walked into a particular room, we may joke about our incipient "Alzheimer's." But Alzheimer's disease is no joke. It's a ...

Clinical trials are the part of research that determines whether a medical intervention should be moved, or "translated," from the lab to routine patient care. ...

In the quest to turn laboratory breakthroughs into new cancer treatments, much can be lost in translation. Only a fraction of “eureka moments” result in ...

In Shakespeare's time, medicine was based on the Hippocratic theory of the four bodily humors, or fluids. Good health was all about keeping these humors ...

In the winter of 2014, staff of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit had a serious problem. Researchers at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Saint Marys ...

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 ...