Category Archives: Progress Updates

Showing the Power of Individualized Medicine through Patient Experiences

April 26th, 2013 - 8:51 am

CHICAGO — “Individualized medicine … it’s not just about deciphering your own genome … it’s about you having the power to choose your own care and having access to information that can best keep you well.” That was the message … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Awards, Events, Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates | Tagged Center for Individualized Medicine, Edison Awards, Gianrico Farrugia, individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, personalized medicine | Comments (1)

The People You Meet – BIO 2013

April 24th, 2013 - 1:18 pm

CHICAGO — You never know who you’ll bump into here at this largest biotech conference, now in its 20th year. It’s a bit like strolling the United Nations. If you walk down one aisle and think you’re whiffing Turkish food, … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, People, Progress Updates | Tagged BIO 2013, biotechnology, International medicine, Japan, Mayo Clinic | Leave a comment

Minnesota High Schooler in Science Finals – BIO 2013

April 23rd, 2013 - 10:37 am

CHICAGO — The next generation of scientists from Minnesota and the rest of the nation are making themselves known. The Biotechnology Institute has sponsored another international competition for high school scientists here at BIO 2013 and Minnesota’s finalist is Rena … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Awards, Events, Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged awards, BIO 2013, Mayo Clinic, New Prague, science education | Leave a comment

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)

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 →