Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why, and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

May 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Collaborators from Mayo-Illinois Alliance for Technology Based Healthcare have developed a new, single molecule test for detecting methylated DNA. Methylation—the addition of a methyl group of molecules to a DNA strand—is ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 14, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Mayo Clinic researchers have gained insights into the function of a member of a family of specialized proteins called histone chaperones. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, they ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

For nearly two decades, the medical world and the American public have grappled with the lightning-rod topic of stem cells, in particular the controversy surrounding cells from human embryos. But when researchers four years ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jul 05, 2011 2 / 5 (1) 1 |

For more than 5 million Americans with heart failure, a critical step to better health is taking the medications they're prescribed. But many patients fail to do so, putting themselves at greater risk of hospitalization and ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 29, 2011 not rated yet 0

Mayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients.

Medicine & Health - Medications

Mar 24, 2011 not rated yet 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac pacing may help epilepsy patients with seizure-related falls due to ictal asystole, an unusual condition in which the heart stops beating during an epileptic seizure. The study ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 23, 2011 not rated yet 0

In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatm ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 08, 2011 not rated yet 0

Recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) limits aimed to enhance patient safety may compromise the quality of doctors' training, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Mar 01, 2011 1 / 5 (1) 0

Mayo Clinic researchers confirmed that patients who receive therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest have favorable chances of surviving the event and recovering good functional status. In therapeutic ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Feb 18, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

For several decades, researchers have been linking genetic mutations to diseases ranging from cancer to developmental abnormalities. What hasn't been clear, however, is how the body's genome sustains such destructive glitches ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Feb 02, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

For decades, medical wisdom about shingles has been that it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The commonly-held belief is that patients are protected from a recurrence of the herpes zoster virus, which causes shingles, after ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Feb 01, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida and Washington University School of Medicine adds a new twist to the body of evidence suggesting human obesity is due in part to genetic factors. While studying hormone receptors in laboratory m ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jan 11, 2011 not rated yet 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that proteins on the surface of a cell twist a viral protein into position, allowing the virus to start infection and cause disease, all in a movement as graceful as a ballroom dance. The ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 09, 2011 3 / 5 (1) 0 |

Mayo Clinic researchers have determined the lifetime risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and six other autoimmune rheumatic diseases for both men and women. The findings appear online in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Jan 05, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 0