Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: July 9 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the association between inherited germline mutations in cancer predisposition genes and risk of pancreatic cancer.

CPT codes and LOINC update: August 2024 - Insights

This page lists updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of August.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 14 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: Despite advances in understanding the genetic abnormalities in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) and the development of JAK2 inhibitors, there is an urgent need to devise new treatment strategies,...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 5 - Insights

This week's research roundup feature: Variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) in BRCA2 are a common result of hereditary cancer genetic testing. While more than 4,000 unique VUSs, comprised of missense or intronic variants, have been...

Meet Mukesh Pandey, Ph.D. - Developing a New Drug to Detect Prostate Cancer in Its Earliest Stages - Insights

Dr. Pandey is a nuclear radiology researcher working with a team to develop a new radioactive tracer to detect prostate cancer.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 21 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the development and validation of a prostate cancer genomic signature that predicts early androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) treatment response following radical prostatectomy.

Graduation Is upon Us - Insights

Elizabeth Gamache, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, discusses the 2018's class impending graduation and what they have to look forward to afterward.

Clean and dry kidney stones - Insights

To optimize laboratory evaluation of kidney stones, specimens must be both clean and dry. The sensitivity of the analytical method used to determine kidney stone composition requires samples be completely dry, since excess water in the...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 24 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the best tumor size cut-points for renal cell carcinoma staging.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 3 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights advancing diagnostics to address antibacterial resistance.