Discovery’s Edge: Mayo Clinic and NASA – Exploring two frontiers
Space—with near-zero gravity, no atmosphere, and extremes of heat and cold—is an unusual and often hostile environment. But it’s also an opportunity—for medical researchers who see maladies and...
View ArticleScience Saturday: Interstellar stem cell research to improve regenerative...
Mayo Clinic research is reaching to the cosmos for answers on how to overcome hurdles in engineering human stem cells. Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells with potential to unleash the body’s...
View ArticleMayo Clinic in space: A history of discovery
Photo courtesy of Axiom Space Mayo Clinic has made important contributions to space medicine and research since the dawn of the U.S. space program, and prior to that with aeronautical research during...
View ArticleFrom lift off to splash down: An update on Mayo Clinic stem cells in space
It's been six years since Mayo Clinic physician Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D., watched stem cells from his regenerative medicine laboratory blast into space as part of a research effort to see if zero...
View ArticleNew Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space
A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other...
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