Science Saturday

When bar charts take over the world of scientific figures, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues sound the alarm. Looking up, into the night sky ...

This may come as a surprise, but the tubes that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart, called coronary arteries, are distressingly tiny. “Coronary arteries are about ...

The eye’s outermost tissue, the cornea, is a bit more substantial than you might imagine. It’s made up of lots of types of cells and ...

Space—with near-zero gravity, no atmosphere, and extremes of heat and cold—is an unusual and often hostile environment. But it’s also an opportunity—for medical researchers ...

For more than 60 years, Robert Kyle, M.D., has catalogued patient histories, archived blood samples and observed a vast number of people with plasma ...

That and other new medical research stories in Discovery’s Edge “Renaissance in Medicine” Regenerative medicine, the science harnessing the body’s healing mechanisms, ...

Immunotherapy offers new drugs and drug delivery to help the body’s “janitor” with its job. The response of the immune system to cancer is ...

Renaissance means rebirth or regeneration. Every few generations medicine takes a major turn. We’re at one of those junctures now with regenerative medicine — ...

At Mayo Clinic, Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D., studies one type of protein abnormality associated with a complex and incurable disease called light chain amyloidosis. This type ...

“I hope you go home at night and realize that you are changing the world.” – Dr. Alex Parker to team members on transforming medicine. ...

For the first time, the stress hormone ghrelin has been linked to aggression control. Mayo Clinic researchers say this new discovery can potentially lead ...

Medical research scientists, academics and clinicians mingled with entrepreneurs and patient advocates at the World Stem Cell Summit recently in West Palm Beach, Florida. In ...