What's New in Health Care Reform: Feb. 6 - Insights
Top highlights include: New U.S. experiments aim to create gene-edited human embryos, death-cap mushrooms are spreading across North America, daily exercise has been shown to lower blood pressure, scans show female brains remain youthful as...
CPT codes and LOINC update: January 2024 - Insights
This page includes updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of January.
Aiming to advance understanding of hard-to-predict gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), Thermo Fisher Scientific joined forces with Mayo Clinic and BioPharma Diagnostics to validate and gain U.S. regulatory clearance of...
FISH probe & panel project: An overview - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Jess Peterson, M.D., discusses changes to Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ hematology FISH menu to increase awareness, provide reasoning, and highlight some of the great things that are coming.
Medical Drones: High Hopes, Grounded in Science - Insights
While online retailers experiment with drones as a way to swiftly deliver consumer purchases, laboratory medicine physicians and scientists have a lifesaving goal: using drones to rapidly deliver laboratory specimens.
Mayo Clinic Team to Combat Arboviruses and Future Infectious Disease Threats in Belize - Insights
Mayo Clinic and the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health have launched a four-tiered joint project to better characterize and further assist in the detection of vector-borne infectious diseases in Belize.
Check out how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ full menu of B-cell lymphoma testing, which includes next-generation sequencing and FISH testing, can inform diagnosis and prognosis for patients.
Building a Scientific Collaborative Space - Insights
Combining innovative Mayo Clinic laboratories with medical businesses and creative start-up companies will help Rochester—and benefit patients.
Laboratory testing utilization: Coccidioides immitis/posadasii serologic testing - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Elitza Theel, Ph.D., shares the recommended approach to serologic testing for assessment or infection with coccidioides.
Direct immunofluorescence for autoimmune bullous diseases - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., discusses a recent change to the direct immunofluorescence assay, specifically the addition of the IgG4 conjugate.