Science Saturday

Direct-to-consumer genetic or over the counter testing emerged in the early 2000s as a means of allowing consumers to access information about their genetics without ...

If you are one of the estimated 1.5 million Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, you know about the painful, swollen and stiff joints that ...

Researchers studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, have long been suspicious about the protein known as TDP-43. Now, in a publication in Nature Neuroscience, Mayo researchers provide enough ...

What once seemed like a scene from a 22nd century sci fi movie is reality today. High speed, big data-processing computers combine artificial intelligence with human ...

At 62, Oscar Campanini expected some aches and pains in his joints, especially after his weekly pickup soccer game. But two years ago, the pain ...

Not an extraterrestrial spaceship, but something equally fascinating—extracellular vesicles are biological nanoparticles secreted by all cells. Extracellular vesicles contain biomolecules, such as RNA, ...

Under his mentor’s watch, a graduate student prepared for a career in research while seeking ways to combat the effects of aging. When describing ...

According to Mayo Clinic's Dr. Richard Weinshilboum & Dr. Liewei Wang, pharmacogenomics – how your genes affect the way you respond to medications – is ...

The addition of a 7-Tesla MRI scanner — the first in North American with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for clinical uses — ...

The Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery focuses on the science of best practice. Best practice ...

LONDON, England (September, 1665)—Spectacular images using an astounding new instrument can be seen in a new publication written by Royal Society member Robert Hooke, titled “Micrographia,or ...

The Mayo Clinic Research News Roundup is written by Elizabeth Zimmermann Young for Advancing the Science. It includes brief summaries and links to research news ...