Science Saturday

On August 20, 2015, former president Jimmy Carter announced he was battling metastatic melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Doctors removed a one-inch mass ...

“People were still getting fractures.” That was the problem faced by Sundeep Khosla, M.D., Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and osteoporosis expert. He and his team were ...

Crohn’s-related wounds may have met their match in a pioneering regenerative therapy thanks to truly collaborative team science. In the world of medical trials, a ...

The road to developments that change medicine is littered with seemingly great ideas. In the early stages, that road meanders like a mountain trail ...

Curiosity, unconventional thinking, and random chance drive research into new drugs for the treatment of kidney disease. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis—yes, it’s a mouthful. ...

Thomas Hoffman of Spearfish, S.D., was 56, weighed 235, and had been diagnosed with prediabetes when he began to diet. As the pounds ...

As a species, we have a love-hate relationship with microbes. For centuries, we didn’t even know they existed. Then came the microscope and Louis ...

The National Institutes of Health is spearheading the effort and for the past year has been organizing the foundational elements. Today, NIH formally announced ...

Patricia Thomas was trying to keep up her spirits. Her cough was not improving. Already thin, she was not gaining weight and the night ...

Like a case of breaking and entering, when multiple sclerosis attacks the central nervous system, it leaves an evidence trail of theft ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Discovery’s Edge, Mayo Clinic’s research magazine, is now available online in Spanish at http://discoverysedge.mayo.edu/espanol/ Each year, Mayo Clinic cares for more ...

The term “teamwork” is widely used when talking about scientific research, but when it comes to the Mayo Clinic version, it means cross-disciplinary teams ...