Author Archives: Robert Nellis

New York Hospitals Searching Genomes, Mayo has Clinic in Operation

April 22nd, 2013 - 2:13 pm

Readers of the New York Times today saw a nice overview story of how the leading research hospitals in the metro area are competing to use genomic and molecular tools to attack cancers of various types. It’s always good to … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates | Tagged cancer, genomics, individualized Medicine clinic, Mayo Clinic | Comments (4)

The Minnesota Pavilion – BIO 2013

April 22nd, 2013 - 12:22 pm

Minnesota has a common border with Kentucky and is adjacent to Belgium and Spain. No, global geography hasn’t shifted — or has it? Someone said that this conference “smashes” the entire world into one room so they have to … Continue reading →

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Biotech Advances Through International Networking

April 22nd, 2013 - 8:38 am

CHICAGO — Collaboration has no borders. That was clearly evident last evening when nearly 200 people — an international cross section of economic developers, researchers and government officials — crowded a networking reception hosted by the state of Minnesota. Many … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Innovations, People | Tagged BIO 2013, biotechnology, DEED, economic development, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota | Leave a comment

How to be a Science Writer

April 18th, 2013 - 10:43 am

Sometimes paths and purposes cross and good things happen. Internationally-read science writer Kendall Powell was on campus in Rochester today to speak to Mayo Graduate School students on the prospects for writing about science as a career. Kendall has … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, People | Tagged Kendall Powell, Mayo Graduate School, National Association of Science Writers, Nature, science writing | Leave a comment

A First: Mayo Clinic and Collaborators Heal Human Heart From Within

April 10th, 2013 - 8:50 am

Using patients’ own cells, Mayo researchers used a special cocktail of proteins to train them to become heart-like and successfully introduced them to the individuals’ cardiac tissue that had been damaged by disabling heart attacks. All participants in this Phase … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged cardiology, Center for Regenerative Medicine, heart attack, heart failure, heart repair, Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, stem cells | Leave a comment

Mayo’s Individualizing Medicine Conference – Registration Open

March 29th, 2013 - 7:47 am

This week we’ve heard how genomics is helping to determine individual risk predictions for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, with Mayo Clinic in the forefront of some of those huge studies. That’s a good opener for touting Individualizing Medicine: From … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Innovations, People, Progress Updates | Tagged Center for Individualized Medicine, continuing medical education, Dr. Eric Green, Dr. Richard Besser, genomics, individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, medical conference, personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics | Leave a comment

Mayo Team Featured in Developmental Cell

March 25th, 2013 - 11:52 am

Mark McNiven, Ph.D., is senior author on a Mayo study highlighted in the journal Developmental Cell. First author is Gina Razidlo, Ph.D., research fellow in gastroenterology. The paper, Dynamin 2 Potentiates Invasive Migration of Pancreatic Tumor Cells through Stabilization of the … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged biochemistry and molecular biology, Cancer Research, Cell, Developmental Cell, gastroenterolgy, Mayo Clinic research, prostate cancer | Leave a comment

Discovery’s Edge New Issue

February 15th, 2013 - 3:05 pm

The print winter issue of Mayo Clinic’s research magazine Discovery’s Edge, is now available. If you’d like a free copy, let us know. Also visit us online http://discoverysedge.mayo.edu/. Read More — http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/2013/02/15/going-to-discoverys-edge/ Share/Bookmark

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Awards, Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates | Tagged applied research, basic research, clinical research, Discovery's Edge, Mayo Clinic, research magazine | Leave a comment

Fecal transplants vs. C. diff.

January 18th, 2013 - 10:08 am

Nature is touting the first randomized clinical trial to show that fecal transplants are more effective than standard antibiotic treatment against that modern scourge of the gut, Clostridium difficile. The article by Ed Yong on Jan. 16 details the paper by … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, People, Progress Updates | Tagged c diff, Clostridium difficile, Dr. David Agus, fecal transplant, Jeffrey Drazen, John Noseworthy, Mayo Clinic, Microbiome, Paul Stoffels | Leave a comment

Francis Collins on NPR, Mayo researchers in Science, Wired

December 19th, 2012 - 1:33 pm

It’s been a fun week watching people pop up here and there — some in unexpected places. Steven Ekker, Ph.D., head Mayo Clinic’s zebrafish research program, was part of Elizabeth Pennisi’s article on that up and coming animal research model … Continue reading →