Transformative diagnostics - Insights
With a sophisticated laboratory test catalog and thousands of Mayo Clinic experts, we’re here to help you answer the toughest clinical questions.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Carrie Lahner - Insights
Carrie began her career at Mayo Clinic in 2006 as the associate director of the Eisenberg Genomics Education Program. In her current role as a genetic counselor, she employs her skills to educate on genetic test offerings and support MCL’s...
Integration, innovation, precision: Propelling leading-edge diagnostics - Insights
The third episode of “Life of a Specimen” video series discusses the integration that drives the development of innovative tests, including the movement disorders evaluation, at Mayo Clinic Laboratories.
Living in the moment: Susan Parrott - Insights
As someone affected by chronic liver disease, Susan Parrott knows how it feels to live in uncertainty. But every few months, the anxiety and doubt that shadow her life fade when Mayo Clinic Laboratories test results confirm her condition is...
Serving more than 60 countries, Mayo Clinic Laboratories is creating a new standard for global diagnostic testing, offering international clients a vast test menu, access to Mayo Clinic experts, superior customer service, and more.
An order-entry, clinical decision support tool developed by physicians and scientists at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) for clinicians within the healthcare system who order autoimmune and paraneoplastic antibody...
One of the biggest misunderstandings about genetic testing is a perception that once a variant is identified and analyzed thoroughly, using all the best tools available, it can be associated with a specific disease or condition. But many...
The exponential increase in the number of diagnostic tests available to physicians (in dermatopathology as well as other medical specialties) can be overwhelming, according to a new multi-institutional study co-published in the Journal of...
An emotional proposition for a pancreatic cancer survivor: Jim Smith - Insights
Since overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis five years ago, Jim Smith has embraced life. But each time he travels to Mayo Clinic for follow-up laboratory testing, a well of emotions rises up to remind him of life’s fragility. Thankfully,...
Modified two-tiered testing for Lyme disease - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., discusses the modified two-tiered testing algorithm for Lyme disease entirely based on enzyme immunoassays (EIA).