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Congrats to 2017 Residency and Fellowship Program Graduates - Insights

On June 14, a ceremony was held in honor of 36 graduating Mayo Clinic Residency and Fellowship Program trainees. At the event, administrators, program directors, associate program directors, consultants, and education staff celebrated the...

Nikola Baumann, Ph.D., and Brooke Katzman, Ph.D., Discuss Biotin Interference in Immunoassays - Insights

Nikola Baumann, Ph.D., Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory and Central Processing Laboratory, and Brooke Katzman, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Hospital Clinical Laboratory and Point of Care, at Mayo Clinic, recently discussed biotin...

Jane Hermansen Discusses Empowering Lab Leaders in Medical Laboratory Observer - Insights

Jane Hermansen, Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories, and current President of CLMA, recently participated in an interview featured in "Medical Laboratory Observer" about empowering laboratory leaders to achieve excellence.

Remembering Nancy Reagan and a "Magical Friendship" #ThrowbackThursday - Insights

Nancy Reagan liked to say she had a "magical friendship" with Mayo Clinic, since it was a future surgeon's sleight-of-hand that introduced her to the institution. Mrs. Reagan, who died March 6, 2016, was a loyal Mayo patient and advocate...

February 2023 - Clinical Informatics - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Informatics.

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

This week’s Research Roundup highlights potential genetic modifiers of disease risk and age at onset in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and GRN mutations.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: June 11 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the detection of gastric cancer with novel methylated DNA markers: discovery, tissue validation, and pilot testing in plasma.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: March 29 - Insights

This Feature Includes: Preclinical modeling in glioblastoma patient-derived xenograft (GBM PDX) xenografts to guide clinical development of lisavanbulin-a novel tumor checkpoint controller targeting microtubules.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: March 22 - Insights

This Feature Includes: A clinically compatible drug-screening platform based on organotypic cultures identifies vulnerabilities to prevent and treat brain metastasis.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Aug. 13 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights diagnostic thresholds for androgen-producing tumors or pathologic hyperandrogenism in women by use of total testosterone concentrations measured by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: July 2 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the comparison of risk stratification models to predict recurrence and survival in pleuropulmonary solitary fibrous tumor.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Aug. 6 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights how a novel enhancer regulates MGMT expression and promotes temozolomide-resistance in glioblastomas.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Feb. 26 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the blast phase myeloproliferative neoplasm with a Mayo-AGIMM study of 410 patients from two separate cohorts.

Audrey Schuetz, M.D., Comments on First-Ever Case of Human Eye Worms - Insights

A recent article in HealthDay News reported on a case of an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon who became the first human ever infected by a type of eye worm previously seen only in cattle. Audrey Schuetz, M.D., Senior Associate...

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 23 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights different mutational rates and mechanisms in human cells at pregastrulation and neurogenesis.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: October 5 - Insights

This week's research roundup features: Therapeutic trials in adult FSGS: lessons learned and the road forward.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 29 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights pathways impacted by genomic alterations in pulmonary carcinoid tumors.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Feb. 5 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights cryptogenic cirrhosis and sitosterolemia, a treatable disease if identified but fatal if missed.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 22 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights improving immune-vascular crosstalk for cancer immunotherapy.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 12 - Insights

This week's research roundup features: PFKFB3 works on the FAK-STAT3-SOX2 axis to regulate the stemness in MPM.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories and American Hospital Dubai announce strategic partnership - Insights

Mayo Clinic Laboratories and American Hospital Dubai announce a strategic partnership aimed at improving advanced laboratory diagnostics in the Dubai region. Under the agreement, the two organizations will begin delivering laboratory...

A Look Back at MLS Program - Insights

Alex Harker, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) class of 2017, takes a look back at the MLS program and highlights his experience.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Nov. 27 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights distinct spatiotemporal accumulation of N-truncated and full-length amyloid-β42 in Alzheimer's disease.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., and J. Kenneth Schoolmeester, II, M.D., Receive 2017 Teacher of Year Awards - Insights

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., and J. Kenneth Schoolmeester, II, M.D., were recently selected as recipients of the 2017 Pathology Teacher of the Year Award from the Mayo Fellows’ Association.

Tom Smith, Ph.D., Honored in "Journal of Clinical Microbiology" - Insights

In 2012, the Journal of Clinical Microbiology began publishing quarterly biographical features of pioneers and innovators in clinical microbiology. Of the more than 15 microbiologists who have been profiled over the years, the career...

Jerry Katzmann, Ph.D., Receives AACC Academy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research - Insights

Jerry Katzmann, Ph.D., an emeritus consultant in the Mayo Clinic Protein Immunology Laboratory, has received the AACC Academy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: November 22 - Insights

This week's research roundup features: Progression of chronic kidney disease following radical and partial nephrectomy

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: January 24 - Insights

This weeks research roundup features: Automated scoring of total inflammation in renal allograft biopsies

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: January 31 - Insights

This week's research roundup features: Emergence of restless legs syndrome during opioid discontinuation

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: February 28 - Insights

This week's Research Roundup features: Laboratory and metabolic investigations.

Coaching for Staff Development - Insights

"Coaching" has become the latest buzzword on the staff-development scene. In its purest form, coaching is a developmental process carried out between the coach and a "talent" in order to promote desirable and sustainable change.

A Sysmex Game of Telephone - Insights

Rachel Olk, a student in the Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, talks about her experience with the Sysmex Hematology Analyzer during a game of "Telephone" in the laboratory.

Metacognitive Practices - Insights

Deb Hagen-Moe, Education Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, discusses how metacognition can be used to enhance an individual’s ability to learn and retain information.

Regional Health-Mayo Medical Laboratories Collaboration to Benefit Patients, Providers - Insights

Regional Health has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory. The agreement provides Regional Health Rapid City Hospital physicians and caregivers with access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of more than 4,000...

St. Charles Health System Teams Up with Mayo Medical Laboratories to Perform Testing - Insights

St. Charles Health System in Bend, Oregon, has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory, giving the health system access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of laboratory tests and clinical expertise.

sphingotec Announces Collaboration with Mayo Clinic for Evaluation and Use of Biomarkers to Improve Diagnosis of Certain Diseases, Including Kidney Disease, Breast Cancer, Sepsis, and Cardiovascular Disease - Insights

sphingotec GmbH, a biotechnology company that develops biomarkers for the detection and management of diseases, has recently signed an agreement with Mayo Clinic to collaborate on the evaluation and use of several biomarkers that may...

From Michigan to Mayo for Esoteric Lab Needs - Insights

Munson Healthcare, an eight-hospital system, has worked with Mayo Clinic Laboratories for more than 30 years. The system’s community hospital labs provide basic testing, but Munson turns to Mayo Clinic Laboratories for its highly...

Mayo Clinic's Frozen Section Breaks Ground at Simulation Center - Insights

Traditionally, Mayo Clinic's Simulation Center is used for surgical procedures and teaching students how to run a code. Mayo Clinic pathology consultant Karen Fritchie, M.D., recently developed a new and innovative way to use the center.

Testing algorithm streamlines assessment for COVID-19 - Insights

In a recent "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Aaron Tande, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and associate chair for outpatient practice in Mayo Clinic's Division of Infectious Diseases, explains the algorithm Mayo has developed to make...

Clinical Case Studies - Insights

The Pathways program provides anatomic and clinical pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references directly from Mayo Clinic fellows, physicians, scientists, and allied health staff.

Pathways Case Studies: February 2020 - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for February include the following sub-specialties: Anatomic Pathology,...

Breath Diagnostics, Mayo Clinic Laboratories Announce Collaboration to Develop New Diagnostic Test That Detects Lung Cancer Using Patients' Exhaled Breath - Insights

Breath Diagnostics, Inc. and Mayo Clinic Laboratories have announced a collaboration to develop clinical diagnostic tests that use patient breath samples to identify individual biomarkers that can predict a spectrum of diseases. The two...

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Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: March 15 - Insights

This Feature Includes: Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data.

New Test Options for NTRK Gene Fusions - Insights

The presence NTRK gene fusions is one of the eligibility requirements for the recently FDA-approved therapy Vitrakvi (larotrectinib), a therapy indicated in adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors regardless of the type of tumor....

Molecular Detection for Tuberculosis Drug Resistance [Test in Focus] - Insights

Nancy Wengenack, Ph.D. gives an overview of this test available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She discusses when this testing should be ordered, how this testing compares to other testing approaches, and what clinical action can be...

October 2023 - Clinical Microbiology - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Microbiology.

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Oligosaccharidosis - Insights

Check out Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ expert-developed biochemical and molecular testing to confirm a diagnosis of oligosaccharidosis.

Phlebotomy modules - Insights

Our interactive learning modules encompass many of the necessary skills to further develop your knowledge and skills on your journey as a phlebotomist.