Research - February 2017 Archives

The SpaceX rocket carrying samples of donated adult stem cells from a research laboratory at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Mayo Clinic research team has found a new gene mutation that may be a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A Mayo Clinic study has shown evidence linking the biology of aging with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that impairs lung function ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mayo Clinic Cancer Center will host “Capture the Moment,” a free public cancer education symposium at the Ritz-Carlton at Orlando Grande Lakes, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Consider it one physician’s giant leap for mankind. Today, the latest rocket launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...

Stem cell research is about to get a boost that’s out of this world. If all goes as planned, the SpaceX CRS-10 mission will blast off from ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― A multidisciplinary team of surgeons, physicians and other health professionals recently completed a near-total face transplant on a Wyoming man on Mayo ...

Merck is halting a trial of verubecestat, an Alzheimer's disease medication. The pharmaceuticals company concluded the drug has “virtually no chance of finding a positive clinical effect.” ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Ice fishing might seem like a benign sport – for everyone except the fish. Sitting in a cozy shanty waiting for a ...

PHOENIX – Mayo Clinic and University of Washington researchers have discovered a new culture method that unlocks the natural fighter function of immune T-cells when ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. and PHILADELPHIA — Mayo Clinic’s Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are collaborating ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ─ Two Mayo Clinic researchers have been named to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, bringing the total Mayo membership in the honorary ...