Medical Innovation

A newer, more effective treatment for uterine fibroids is available that doesn't require surgery.  That's good news for the estimated 26 million women in the U.S. ...

A chance meeting on a student shuttle bus put Wenchun Qu, M.D., Ph.D., on a new  direction that years later would culminate in becoming the Jorge ...

National DNA Day on April 25 marks the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953 and the Human Genome Project’s completion in 2003.   The discovery of ...

Chromosomal errors are a hallmark of cancer cells. Defects in the genome derived from the incorrect separation of chromosomes (and the DNA packed within) in ...

Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has made significant strides biomanufacturing early-stage therapeutics. The focus is on new medicines derived from the human body, called biotherapeutics, ...

In 2020, the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine set out to create a library of genomic sequencing data of 100,000 consented Mayo Clinic participants by the ...

Kidney failure can be caused by many reasons: diabetes, high blood pressure, autoimmune diseases and polycystic kidney disease, or PKD. PKD is an inherited disease that causes cysts ...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and platform models are increasingly driving everyone's day-to-day experiences, including how people receive health care. However, those experiences are not ...

Colorectal cancer is a term that combines both colon cancer and rectal cancers. The colon and rectum are two different parts of the lower digestive tract. ...

It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo ...

Clinical notes in medical records are rich sources of data about human health. But tapping them for medical research can be challenging because these data ...