The prostate health index or phi test reduces the need for prostate cancer biopsies by 30 percent.
Eye on Innovation features exciting advances taking place at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. This monthly series shines a spotlight on recently developed tests, and highlights how Mayo Clinic translates ideas and discoveries into testing...
Patient-focused pragmatism: The Mayo Clinic innovation model - Insights
In a world of ever-faster technical change, Mayo Clinic Laboratories is uniquely positioned to innovate. Collaboration with clinicians pinpoints unmet patient needs and facilitates the development of diagnostic testing that provides...
Respiratory disease - Insights
Learn about our suite of tests that are designed to detect a variety of respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.
Renal Pathology at Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ is integrated with the Renal Biopsy Laboratory in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic. Board-certified pathologist have a special interest in non-neoplastic disease of the kidney and...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is typically classified as either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis based on clinical features, colonoscopy findings, histologic changes, and the anatomical distribution of disease. In some cases,...
Bile acid malabsorption - Insights
Chronic diarrhea and abdominal pain can be caused by many conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Celiac disease, infectious GI pathogens, and malignancy. When other causes of chronic diarrhea...
Rapidly progressive dementia - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ first-in-class testing for rapidly progressive dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease uses a sensitive and specific seed amplification assay that detects and identifies prion proteins in CSF alongside a clinically...
Pediatric CNS Disorder Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
We offer a first-of-its-kind profile including only the antibodies that are pertinent to pediatric CNS disorders—all in one evaluation.
Complex testing offers answers and guidance about a lifelong illness - Insights
For patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) — the most common leukemia in adults — advanced testing can not only provide valuable information about their disease state, but peace of mind in the face of a progressive, incurable...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Rehab Elkadri - Insights
Rehab Elkadri joined Mayo Clinic Laboratories in December 2021, relocating from the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates. As an international clinical specialty liaison in the Neurology division for the Middle East and North Africa...
Specialized testing diagnoses uncommon allergy to red meat: Joseph Ducaji - Insights
CT scans and hiatal/abdominal ultrasounds could not uncover why, whenever he ate steak, Joseph Ducaji experienced severe stomach problems, itchy hives, chills, and nausea. It took specialized testing from Mayo Clinic to unlock a...
MCL @Work: Becca Johnson - Insights
Becca Johnson, a dedicated project manager, joined Mayo Clinic in 2014, driven by a desire to contribute to an organization making a global impact. With BioPharma Diagnostics, Becca oversees large projects, ensuring efficient sample...
MCL @Work: Adam Stewart - Insights
In spring of 2022, Adam Stewart joined Mayo Clinic’s Blood Donor Program as a marketing and recruitment coordinator. He enjoys and finds great purpose in his work because he loves to see members of his local community donate blood and help...
MCL @Work: Tamara Staley - Insights
Eight years ago, Tamara Staley joined Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ Cardiovascular Sales team selling CV diagnostic testing to community hospitals. Now, she leads sales for Hematology and Oncology’s Central Region. Tamara is proud to help...
MCL @Work: Brie LaJoye - Insights
Brie LaJoye began her career with Mayo Clinic in 2018 as an intern and has been with the organization for nearly six years. She currently works as a Laboratory information system (LIS) technical specialist, managing lab instrumentation,...
Learn about how our testing for patients with renal, bladder, and prostate cancer identifies the cancer’s genetic traits and helps direct treatment.
Live and recorded presentations featuring Q&A with subject matter experts who share lessons learned, reflect on current applications for testing, project the future of lab medicine, and provide resources for growing your laboratory.
Widening the net to capture elusive pathogens - Insights
Central nervous system infections, such as meningitis and encephalitis, can be devastating for affected patients. While specific treatments are available for some of these infections, it first requires identifying the precise cause of...
A new comprehensive genetic panel redefines Parkinson's disease diagnosis - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories introduces the Inherited Parkinson’s Disease Gene Panel (Mayo ID: PARDP), a collaborative breakthrough poised to transform Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and treatment. Led by Rodolfo Savica, M.D., Ph.D., and Zhiyv...
How the COVID-19 pandemic has increased public knowledge of lab testing - Insights
While the accelerated innovation and increased access to testing that’s occurred because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been critically important to worldwide health care, so too has the crash course in laboratory testing and pathology the...
Neuroimmunology: Updates and antibody test utilization - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Andrew McKeon, M.B., B.Ch., M.D., reviews the use of neurological phenotype-based evaluations, the move away from the paraneoplastic evaluation, and upcoming changes to test profiles.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Shannon Bennett - Insights
As director of Regulatory Affairs for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Shannon Bennett helps safeguard Mayo Clinic’s reputation for quality care by ensuring that its clinical laboratories operate at the highest level of...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Lisa Wortman Raring - Insights
In her role as a proposal writer, Lisa Wortman Raring helps show clients everything Mayo Clinic Laboratories has to offer, making it clear how the organization can best meet their needs and the needs of their patients.
Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights
Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...
What's New in Health Care Reform: Dec. 26 - Insights
Top highlights include: FDA panel backs prescribing opioid overdose reversal drug along with painkillers, Surgeon General warns youth vaping is now an "epidemic," international patients seeking cures in the states, Mayo Clinic President and...
For people with encephalitis, rapid treatment of their acute brain inflammation is critical for avoiding devastating physical and cognitive deficits. But appropriate treatment requires identifying the culprit causing the symptoms.
Frozen and on Time: Rapid Margin Assessment Helps Prevent Repeat Surgeries - Insights
A breakthrough in pathology, achieved more than a century ago (allegedly on a frozen window ledge in Rochester, Minnesota) has evolved into an innovative aspect of care at Mayo Clinic. Mayo is one of the only medical centers in the United...
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.
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.
Relentless innovation - Insights
Inspired by Mayo Clinic’s history of breaking down barriers to change medicine, we are constantly reimagining what’s possible in diagnostics.
Clinic’s commitment to meeting the needs of every patient, from the smallest to the tallest, is central to our approach to pediatric gastroenterology testing. Developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s top-ranked GI experts, our...
Shining light on one family's struggle: Barbara, Deborah, Pamela, and Rylie - Insights
Before testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Barbara Domaille, Deborah Neville, Pamela Neville, and Rylie Ronnenberg thought there could be a genetic connection to the hip problems they shared. After the testing, they knew for sure.
Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights
Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...
Clinical excellence - Insights
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ test offerings and services can help hospital laboratories enhance patient care and laboratory performance.
Part II of this series shows how a breakthrough discovery about how kidney stones form may open the way for new, unorthodox treatments. The discovery was made possible by joining University of Illinois’ geology and biology forces with Mayo...
Learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories and hospitals we work with around the world balance strong financial performance and world-class patient care.
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...
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...
Avoid seller's remorse: Why owning your lab makes sense - Insights
For community health care providers, owning a laboratory has been likened to shoveling money down a giant drain. Cayuga Medical Center is challenging that narrative. Instead of selling, Cayuga is investing in its lab — which it considers a...
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...
MCL @Work: Brian Dukek - Insights
As a senior principal developer for the brand-new Process Innovation Through Automation Laboratory, Brian Dukek helps labs throughout the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology evaluate new automation tools and streamline...
Laboratory Testing of Bone Turnover Markers - Insights
In this “Hot Topic,” Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, Ph.D., professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, discusses the role of bone turnover markers in osteoporosis treatment as well as how to best interpret changes in bone...
New tests launched in March - Insights
In March 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced twenty nine new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Building the business of lab medicine - Insights
In part three of the 50th Anniversary series, Mayo Clinic Laboratories looks further outside the walls of Mayo Clinic. With the belief that the latest in diagnostic testing should be available to any patient, no matter where they are...
Unraveling a diagnostic mystery: Ed Garber - Insights
Ed Garber spent months in physical and neurological decline while a cohort of care providers and specialists searched for the root cause of his symptoms. That search for answers ended after testing by Mayo Clinic Laboratories gave them the...
MCL @Work: Robin Huiras-Carlson - Insights
Robin Huiras-Carlson's connection with Mayo Clinic traces back to her early years, marked by a diagnosis of a rare genetic condition at the age of 10. Today, as a senior marketing specialist with Mayo Clinic Laboratories, she draws...
MCL @Work: Jane Hermansen - Insights
Outreach manager Jane Hermansen regards Mayo Clinic as the pinnacle of healthcare. Having spent her formative years in Minnesota, she was inspired by her uncle Roger to embark on a path as a laboratory scientist. Presently, she oversees the...
An inside look at the state-of-the-art supports enabling invention - Insights
A web of innovation within Mayo Clinic Laboratories links research and test development with clinical practice, enabling for some of the world’s most pioneering methodologies. Underpinning this innovation network are unique supports that...
Diagnostic Exploratory Testing - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Nicole Boczek, Ph.D., assistant professor and laboratory director in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Sarah Barnett, M.S., CGC, discuss diagnostic exploratory testing, explain why it’s...