Researchers decode molecular action of combination therapy for a deadly...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In their bid to find the best combination of therapies to treat anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus demonstrated that all histone...
View ArticleMayo Clinic researchers find new code that makes reprogramming of cancer...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Cancer researchers dream of the day they can force tumor cells to morph back to the normal cells they once were. Now, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have discovered...
View ArticleMayo Clinic campuses distinguished for care of pancreas disorders
Journalists: Sound bites with gastroenterologist Michelle Lewis, M.D., are available in the downloads. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic’s Florida and Rochester, Minnesota campuses...
View ArticleLandmark study finds more intensive treatment to lower blood pressure saves...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus was the nation’s second largest recruiting site, and largest in the Southeast, to participate in a landmark study that has found maintaining systolic...
View ArticleMayo receives federal grant to test innovative triple-negative breast cancer...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have been awarded a $13.3 million, five-year federal grant to test a vaccine designed to prevent the recurrence of triple-negative...
View ArticleMayo Clinic awarded $5.3 million federal grant to study vascular risk factors...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus was awarded a $5.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify vascular risk factors in aging and dementia, and translate...
View Article$10 Million Gift for Neurosurgery Residency Program, Addressing Nationwide...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A $10 million gift from a grateful patient and his wife will provide funding for a neurosurgery residency program on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus to help address the nationwide...
View ArticleSurgery and Stenting Safe, Effective Lowering Long-Term Risk of Stroke
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Stenting and surgery are equally effective at lowering the long-term risk of stroke from a narrowed carotid artery, according to results of CREST – a 10-year, federally funded...
View ArticleNanotechnology Lab Opens in Florida to Research, Apply Minute Materials to...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With support from the state of Florida, Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for nanotechnology research, an emerging field of science that studies...
View ArticleDrug Combo Shuts Down Stem Cells, Tumor Growth in Lung Cancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have shut down one of the most common and lethal forms of lung cancer by combining the rheumatoid arthritis drug auranofin with an...
View ArticleResearchers Identify Best Drug Therapy for Rare, Aggressive, Pancreatic Cancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Each year, about 200 to 400 Americans develop pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma, a rare form of pancreatic cancer that has no effective standard of care. A study involving...
View ArticleMayo Clinic First to Implant Device to Solve Fecal Incontinence
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A clinical team on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus is the first to offer four patients with long-term fecal incontinence a new and potentially long-lasting treatment — a small band...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Neuropathologist Awarded International Professional Society’s...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dennis W. Dickson, M.D., a neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, will receive the highest honor bestowed by the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP), an...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Scientist Receives Pre-eminent International Award for...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Guojun Bu, Ph.D., a neuroscientist on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, will receive the 2016 MetLife Foundation Major Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease ─ one of the...
View ArticleTrove of Alzheimer’s patients’ molecular, clinical data available
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has described as a pioneering effort, a research team at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida, has made public a treasure...
View ArticleSingle mutation in recessive gene increases risk of earlier onset Parkinson’s...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A collaboration of 32 researchers in seven countries, led by scientists at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, has found a genetic mutation they say confers a risk for development of...
View ArticleMayo Clinic finds myocarditis caused by infection on rise globally
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Myocarditis, an assortment of heart disorders often caused by infection and inflammation, is known to be difficult to diagnose and treat. But the picture of who is affected is...
View ArticleMayo Clinic finds surprising results on first-ever test of stem cell therapy...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have conducted the world’s first prospective, blinded and placebo-controlled clinical study to test the benefit of using bone marrow...
View ArticleMayo Clinic researchers find protein that weakens severe sepsis immune reaction
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — No effective therapy exists today for sepsis, an inflammatory storm that afflicts about 3 million Americans a year ― killing up to half. But now, investigators at Mayo Clinic’s...
View ArticleMayo Clinic awarded $1.6 million in Alzheimer’s disease research state grants
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida were awarded eight grants from the Florida Department of Health to investigate the prevention or cure of Alzheimer’s disease. These...
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