Science Saturday

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 ...

Thanks to the generosity of patients participating in research, benefactor funding, and the dedication of Mayo researchers, people managing primary sclerosing cholangitis in the present ...

The cause of rheumatoid arthritis, a systemic autoimmune disease, is unknown. But certain genes and environmental factors, such as smoking, are linked to the disease ...

The editors of the journal Science have nominated a Mayo Clinic discovery as part of their list of scientific breakthroughs for the last year. ...

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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 ...

Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means ...

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 ...

Inventors and their breakthrough ideas are popular cultural touchstones in America’s history: Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod; Thomas Edison’s light bulb; the Wright brothers’ first ...

Inside a cancer cell, locked tightly within spools of genetic text, reside the origins of each malignancy. For some cancers, a few misprints here ...

The research laboratory of Mayo Clinic pediatric oncologist Richard J. Bram, M.D., Ph.D., was enjoying the kind of success many researchers hope for. His team ...