Mayo scientists develop mathematical index to distinguish healthy microbiome from diseased
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? What causes some people to develop chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and metabolic syndrome while others stay healthy? A major clue could be found in their gut microbiome -- the trillions of microbes living inside the digestive system that regulate various bodily functions. To utilize the huge population of tiny [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - September 14, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q & amp;A podcast: Heart muscle damage from COVID-19
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was known that the disease affected the lungs. But some of the most severe damage to the body can be to the heart muscle. COVID-related myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, can cause severe damage and sometimes death. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Leslie [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - August 30, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Phase 3 clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine underway
As the race to develop a safe and effective vaccine to protect against COVID-19 continues, phase 3 trials of investigational vaccines are underway. In this Q&A, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, explains the meaning of phase 3, who's being tested and the hopeful outcomes. Watch: [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - August 5, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
The effects of COVID-19 on emergency visits, hospitalizations
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- As COVID-19 swept into the U.S., hospitals across the country have reported that their emergency departments are emptying out. In a new study published Monday, Aug. 3, in JAMA Internal Medicine, a team of researchers from multiple institutions provides insights into this phenomenon. "We knew there were major changes in ED (emergency [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - August 2, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic researchers develop a tissue-derived bioactive gel to stop bleeding, aid in vascular healing
PHOENIX, AZ --Researchers at Mayo Clinic are studying the effects of a tissue-derived bioactive gel they developed to improve endovascular embolization - a minimally invasive procedure used to treat bleeding blood vessels and aneurysms. The results of their latest preclinical study are published in the journal Advanced Materials. Endovascular embolization involves a pinhole puncture in [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - July 7, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Crisis inspires innovation
Mayo Clinic has successfully navigated many challenges over our 150-plus year history, including two world wars, the 1918 influenza pandemic and the Great Depression. Our visionary leaders were able to use these inflection points of crisis to catalyze transformational change. Mayo Clinic has an unparalleled resource to lead the response to COVID-19: our organizational values [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 26, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic launches imaging solution to enable digital pathology across the enterprise
ROCHESTER, Minn. - In support of Mayo Clinic's digital health and practice transformation initiatives, the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology has initiated an enterprise-wide digital pathology implementation of the Sectra digital slide review and image storage and management system to enable digital pathology. "As Mayo Clinic continues to lead the transformation of [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 24, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: How vaccines are developed and what that means for COVID-19
In a recent Zoominar, Robert Jacobson, M.D., a Mayo Clinic pediatrician, gave an in-depth, yet easy-to-understand, discussion on vaccine development, and where we are with respect to a vaccine for COVID-19. Dr. Jacobson, who is also a health sciences researcher with specific expertise in pediatric infectious diseases, sets the stage for his discussion with a story about [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 19, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo finds convalescent plasma safe for diverse patients with COVID-19
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have found investigational convalescent plasma to be safe following transfusion in a diverse group of 20,000 patients. The findings -- from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access Program for COVID-19 -- are reported in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The safety report assessed the seven days following [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 17, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: A discovery step toward cell replacement therapy for diabetes
In what could be a step toward cell replacement therapy for diabetes, Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered how to manufacture cells capable of generating a hormone that regulates low blood sugar. Quinn Peterson, Ph.D. and his team have developed a new method of mass producing a cell product containing the hormone glucagon that is capable of protecting against hypoglycemia [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 12, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo researchers define type of Alzheimer's that affects people in their younger years
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic researchers have defined a form of Alzheimer's disease that strikes younger people as early as their 40s, presents with atypical symptoms, and affects a different part of the brain not usually associated with Alzheimer's. In their study, the researchers describe a progressive dysexecutive syndrome which they say affects a person's [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 10, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic identifies factors to predict mortality in pediatric liver transplant
The current system of prioritizing children with liver disease who are waiting for transplantation may not be optimal because the Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease score (PELD) may underestimate risk of dying before a liver transplant in some children if kidney function is not taken into consideration. Adding the values from two additional blood tests, a [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 4, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
VIRUS: COVID-19 registry first to track global ICU experience to shed light on trends in care of critically ill patients
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill -- May 12, 2020 -- The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and Mayo Clinic have partnered to launch the first global COVID-19 registry that tracks ICU and hospital care patterns in near real-time. Created by SCCM's Discovery, the Critical Care Research Network, the Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS) [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - May 11, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic's comprehensive COVID-19 research
"At Mayo, we've developed a comprehensive research portfolio, or what we call a COVID-19 research task force, in order to respond to every area that we need to learn more about this virus. We have scientists doing research in epidemiology. We have people doing research in immunology and vaccine development, in virology, in translational work, in [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - May 5, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body's natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - May 1, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news
