Science Saturday

A genome is a mind-boggling amount of information. Researchers have labored for decades to order and identify more than 3 billion base pairs of DNA ...

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis—yes, it’s a mouthful. It’s also a rare disease, afflicting as few as two in 100,000 people. It’s so uncommon a general ...

Arthur Poll was visiting family in Tucson, Ariz., when he felt a sharp pain in his left kidney one evening. The next day he ...

Only one resource in North America offers complete disease information about a real population spanning half a century. Only one repository can be used to ...

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 — ...