Mayo Clinic

Researchers show brain waves can 'write' on a computer in early tests

Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. By merely focusing on the "q" in a matrix of letters, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 3

Manipulating brain inflammation may help clear brain of amyloid plaques

In a surprising reversal of long-standing scientific belief, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have discovered that inflammation in the brain is not the trigger that leads to buildup of amyloid deposits and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Brain disorder suggests common mechanism may underlie many neurodegenerative diseases

A Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Mayo researchers discover how measles virus spreads

Textbooks will require revisions, researchers say Measles, one of the most common contagious diseases, has been thought to enter the body through the surface of airways and lungs, like many other major viruses. Now, Mayo ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 21, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Moving beyond embryonic stem cells: Encouragement on the horizon

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

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Researchers pinpoint how one cancer gene functions

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

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Researchers describe measles viral protein movement

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

created Jan 09, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop agents that keep insulin working longer

More than half a century after researchers identified a promising way to treat diabetes based on blocking the breakdown of insulin in the body, a research team led by a scientist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers find candidate gene culprits for chronic pain

Chronic pain severely limits patients' quality of life and is among the cost drivers in U.S. health care. Patients can suffer pain without an apparent cause and often fail to respond to available treatments. Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Gene is linked to lung cancer development in never-smokers

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of "never smokers" diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find oncogene is important in pancreatic cancer growth, spread

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that PKC-iota (PKCi), an oncogene important in colon and lung cancers, is over-produced in pancreatic cancer and is linked to poor patient survival. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Mayo researchers find obesity key

Mayo researchers collaborating with investigators at the University of Iowa, University of Connecticut and New York University (NYU) have discovered a molecular mechanism that controls energy expenditure in muscles and helps ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers find gene that contributes to two common neurological movement disorders

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and their collaborators worldwide have discovered that a single gene promotes development of essential tremor in some patients and Parkinson's disease in others. These are ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study finds celiac disease 4 times more common than in 1950s

Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is over four times more common today than it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Mayo researchers: Dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study

Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an experimental drug therapy that was used in combination with standardized hormone treatment and radiation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0