Holiday specimen shipment - Insights
Due to the holiday season, Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, please plan ahead.
December 2023 - Cardiovascular and Infectious Diseases - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case’s sub-specialties are Cardiovascular Pathology and Infectious Diseases Pathology.
August 2023 - Bone & Soft Tissue - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology.
A worldwide increase of the incidence of early-onset pediatric inflammatory bowel disease means more children than ever are diagnosed and treated for life-altering IBD diagnoses. However, not all children suspected of early-onset IBD have...
Malabsorption panel - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories, which is integrated with the clinical gastroenterology practice at Mayo Clinic, understands the worry patients and their loved ones feel while awaiting test results. To expedite and streamline the diagnostic...
New tests launched in November - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories launched the following three tests in November.
Chromium and Cobalt Testing [Test in Focus] - Insights
Chromium and cobalt blood tests are used to monitor exposure to these elements. Both of these elements are naturally occurring and widely distributed in the environment. Previously, serum samples were collected and used to monitor patients...
Alpha-gal testing [Test in Focus] - Insights
Joshua Bornhorst, Ph.D., associate director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Immunoassay Lab, explains how humans can develop an allergy to the alpha-gal molecule, and he describes a new allergen antibody test that can be used to detect it. Dr....
Case Studies in Laboratory Safety - Insights
PACEThis webinar will provide a review of several real-life laboratory safety events. The presentation will outline the scenarios, the lessons learned and look at ways future incidents can be prevented. We will also discuss ways to create...
Find out how patients with a cancer diagnosis can benefit from single-gene analysis to pinpoint whether the cancer is genetic in nature.