Tag Archives: Mayo Clinic

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 , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | 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 →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Mayo and NBC News: Tweeting on Flu, Whooping Cough

December 12th, 2012 - 10:35 am

Three Mayo Clinic physician researchers joined colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and NBC’s Robert Bazell and his crew for a timely Twitter chat on the flu, which is starting early this year. Gregory Poland, M.D., Ph.D., Priya Sampathkumar, … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Czech Clinical Research Center opens on Mayo model

October 17th, 2012 - 10:11 am

  This week they cut the ribbon on what will become the first Euro-wide clinical research center. Located in Brno, the second largest Czech city, the International Clinical Research Center or ICRC will conduct clinical studies with physician-researchers throughout Europe. … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Awards, Events, Innovations, People, Progress Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Interview with Dr. Michael Snyder, Stanford University

October 3rd, 2012 - 9:16 am

Our colleague Hoyt Finnamore caught up with Michael Snyder, the kickoff speaker at the Individualizing Medicine conference…..   Share/Bookmark

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Findings, Innovations, People, Progress Updates | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Media Panel Big Success

October 3rd, 2012 - 8:16 am

If you were watching last evening’s media panel from the Individualizing Medicine conference here on Advancing the Science, you already know what a good exchange it was between the journalists and other experts under the moderating of Ira Flatow. In … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Innovations, People | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Ethics and Genomics

October 2nd, 2012 - 1:52 pm

Hank Greely (J.D.) of Stanford Law School is now on stage, talking without a PowerPoint. That is interesting in itself… but his take on ethics of genome sequencing is direct and also interesting. He predicts that in 10 to 12 … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Findings, Innovations, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Day Two of Mayo’s Individualizing Medicine Conference

October 2nd, 2012 - 8:35 am

I am looking across the table at the back of the conference room at the Mayo Civic Center…on one corner of the next table is Ron Winslow, Deputy Medical Editor of the Wall St. Journal; at the opposite corner, sits … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, People | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Points from the Experts

October 1st, 2012 - 1:30 pm

From the Individualizing Medicine conference in Minnesota — Dr. Jeff Trent, formerly of the National Institutes of Health, and founder of TGen, the genomic research outfit, cited an interesting statistic this morning. Ten years ago doctors were asked whether they … Continue reading →

By Robert Nellis | Posted in Events, Findings, Innovations, People | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment