Chris J Bahnsen
In an initiative to reduce the risk of unnecessary PRBC transfusions, leadership at Mayo Clinic’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit has developed and implemented an evidence-based PRBC transfusion guideline for extremely low-birth-weight infants.
In Mexico's Magdalena Bay in Baja California, a Trans Am pulls into a village courtyard, parking behind an underground restaurant. When the trunk is opened,
Routine screening of all newborns for inherited disorders began in the 1960s after American microbiologist Robert Guthrie, M.D., Ph.D., developed a simple test to identify babies with the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU)
Being the son of a surgeon, Tex Haines felt pressure to enter the medical field. But while earning a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford, he found himself designing skim boards in his shag-carpeted dorm room to appease his first passion. That passion traces back to 1961 when he started skimming at Victoria Beach, a cove in Laguna, acquiring an obsession
Mayo Clinic researchers have co-authored a review to serve as a primer for physicians worldwide who want to translate their laboratory-based discoveries in stem cell therapy into clinical trials. Stem cell therapy has enormous potential to alleviate human suffering.
Just after 6 a.m., I awoke to the sound of someone chanting my name. Peeling back the side curtain of my upper bunk, I was greeted by the wide-awake face of Alan De Herrera, trying to roust me from the cubbyhole where I had been holed up for the last 10 hours.
It’s almost a crime the outside world doesn’t know about the human clinical trials occurring at Mayo Clinic’s Human Cell Therapy Laboratory (HCTL) in Rochester. Currently, there are eleven (phase I) trials underway (or just finishing), investigating the use of cellular therapies.
Recently, a team of researchers and physicians at Mayo Clinic in Rochester identified a new type of renal amyloidosis derived from the protein apolipoprotien C-II (Apo-CII). The type is so rare that it was met with skepticism from other health care providers, but the group’s teamwork and indisputable data persevered and has also brought an end to one woman’s long journey for answers.
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune disease of water channels that predominantly damages astrocytes, specific cells in the brain. The injured astrocytes in turn cause secondary damage to myelin—the insulating sheath around nerve fibers.
Diver and filmmaker Rob Stewart's plans started going to hell in 2002, while he and his film crew were steaming toward Costa Rica
Every spring, Bobbi Pritt, M.D., and her assistants don waders, treat their clothing with a safe odorless insecticide called permethrin,
Mass spectrometry (MS) is rapidly transitioning from specialized testing to being broadly applied in the clinical laboratory. This shift has improved the practice of laboratory medicine and enabled physicians to provide better patient care.
Multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable disease where collections of abnormal plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow, is the second most common type of blood cancer in the U.S. Cytogenetic evaluation at the time of diagnosis—which analyzes plasma cells from the bone marrow for abnormalities in the genes
In a recent study, Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with other institutions, have shown that “high” tumor budding in patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is independently associated with a significantly worse prognosis. CRC ranks second in cancer deaths among malignancies that affect both men and women in the United States.
In an initiative to reduce the risk of unnecessary PRBC transfusions, leadership at Mayo Clinic’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit has developed and implemented an evidence-based PRBC transfusion guideline for extremely low-birth-weight infants.
Clinical and radiologic features distinguishing neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and multiple sclerosis (MS) are already well-accepted. However, there are other neurologic disorders that can be difficult to distinguish from NMO, which sometimes results in misdiagnosis—
Back in 2000, a German study guided by Hartmut Dohner, M.D., established the prognostic association of chromosome abnormalities identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Since then, the “Dohner hierarchical classification” has been the gold standard
The USS Makin Island’s hybrid-electric propulsion is the future of aircraft carriers.
A survey of Aceh's marine ecosystem assesses the tsunami's impact.
You're 2,000 feet under the sea in a three-man Stanley Submarine. Out of the lightless, death-like stillness comes an eerie scraping sound, so loud it fills your head.
Even most locals in Chula Vista, California, the second-to-last city you pass through before crossing the Mexican border into Tijuana, are unaware of what lies beneath San Diego Bay.
In 1997, Captain Charles Moore was returning to Long Beach after a yacht race to Hawaii, at the helm of his oceanographic research vessel, Alguita. Veering off his
Blood-culture contamination remains a problematic cause of false positives and diagnostic errors for many clinical laboratories.
Barry White is probably the only man on the planet who wouldn't have a case of voice envy around Chuck Niles. The heavy grains and deep, machismo-laden microtones that emanate from Niles' leathery throat
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