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    Discovery’s Edge Online Issue

Here are highlights from the online issue of Discovery's Edge, Mayo Clinic's research magazine. You may cite and link to this publication as often as you wish. Republication is allowed with proper attribution. Please include the following subscription information as your editorial policies permit: Visit Discovery's Edge for subscription information.

Parkinson's Disease and Individualized Medicine — A team of researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida is piling up discoveries in Parkinson's genetics with the help of the latest technologies.

Breast Cancer: Predicting Individual Risk — With genomic research, one of the top breast cancer scientists in the country is quietly making inroads into the disease.

Heart Devices, Infections and Treatments — How do you keep artificial body parts from becoming infected? This team has been doing it for years.

Biomechanics: The Wrist in Motion — To understand how something works, sometimes you have to take it apart and reconstruct it. When that something is the human wrist, the same principles apply.

Discovery's Edge, Mayo Clinic's online research magazine, highlights stories of leading medical investigators. Many features cover ongoing projects long before they reach the journals. Science writers and medical reporters seeking story ideas will want to check out the articles, which span a wide range of conditions and feature visuals they can use in their own publications.