Items Tagged ‘genome’
May 7, 2019
Rare, undiagnosed diseases are relatively common
As many as 25 million Americans – about 1 in 13 people – suffer from a rare, undiagnosed condition.* April 29 was designated Undiagnosed Disease Day to raise awareness that collectively, rare diseases are relatively common. People with a rare disease often spend years visiting different medical providers and clinics seeking answers to unexplained conditions. […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, Eric Klee, genome, Heidi Rehm, rare disease, undiagnosed disease
October 18, 2018
What is the impact on health care of genome editing?
Although Mayo Clinic does not use genome editing as part of any treatment in the medical practice, genome editing has promise for treating and even curing previously intractable disorders, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Genome editing, via methods like CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein) can be used to facilitate the […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, CRISPR, gene therapy, genome, Individualizing Medicine Conference, Megan Allyse
August 9, 2018
Using CSI-type technology to unravel the source of bacteria
This article originally appeared on the Center for Individualized Medicine blog on May 28, 2018. Mayo Clinic laboratory workers have a new tool to perform high tech genetic sleuthing for the source of stubborn, sometimes life-threatening bacteria. Bacterial whole genome sequencing can trace individual isolates of bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, also known as Staph […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genome, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Nicholas Chia, Robin Patel
February 19, 2016
Madonna Living Community Series Update: Clinomics – New Frontiers in Patient Care
Mayo Clinic’s three transformational centers – the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, the Center for Regenerative Medicine, and the Center for Individualized Medicine collaborate with the Madonna Living Community to offer a bi-monthly speaker series in which Mayo Clinic speakers share their research on topics relevant to both residents and the surrounding community. […]
Tags: DNA, genome, Madonna Living Communities
May 30, 2013
Genomic Medicine – It’s Not Just for Research Anymore
A change has occurred in medicine. Just wanted to make note. A couple of years ago, on the 10th anniversary of the mapping of the human genome, the national media issued a number of stories lamenting what they saw as the irrelevance of that achievement for medical patients. I won’t list the bylines here, but […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, DNA, genetics, genome, individualized medicine, personalized medicine