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Phlebotomy Top Gun: Safe Handling of Laboratory Specimens During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., addresses the safe handling of laboratory specimens submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic through his yearly Phlebotomy Top Gun presentation based on the previous year’s Phlebotomy...
New tests launched in January - Insights
In January 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced fifty-nine new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Helicobacter pylori Infection: Serologic Testing Not Recommended [Communiqué] - Insights
Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection is among the most common bacterial infections worldwide with approximately one-half of the world’s population infected. Several invasive and noninvasive testing methods are available to detect H...
MCL Hereditary Peripheral Neuropathy Flyer MC2775648
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MCL Von Willebrand Disease Patient Information MC1235265
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Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel, PCR, Feces [Test in Focus] - Insights
The new Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel, PCR, Feces test is now available to the Mayo Clinic practice and Mayo Medical Laboratories clients.
While the diagnostic criteria of celiac disease are well defined, symptoms are generally nonspecific. This fact, combined with the variety of available tests — each with a specific utility and interpretation — can make a diagnosis...
Find out how our BioPharma Diagnostics capabilities can support your precision medicine initiatives, from discovery to post market.
Pathology consultation - Insights
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories consultative pathology practice, which is supported by more than 100 board-certified pathologists, can provide expertise on any case.
Autoimmune neurology evolution - Insights
Patients with autoimmune neurologic conditions deserve the best chance at an accurate diagnosis. These answers can make a real difference in a patient’s treatment and quality of life.
Check out Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ expert-developed biochemical and molecular testing to confirm a diagnosis of oligosaccharidosis.
Dr. Pandey is a nuclear radiology researcher working with a team to develop a new radioactive tracer to detect prostate cancer.
See how our comprehensive fluorescence in situ hybridization panels simplify the ordering process to ensure every patient receives the right test.
Hereditary Colon Cancer Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Our algorithmic approach aids with the ordering process and guides physicians to ensure the right tests are being ordered at the right time for patients.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 12 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights cardiovascular concerns in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 17 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Given the prevalence of dementia and the development of pathology-specific disease modifying therapies, high-value biomarker strategies to inform medical decision making are critical. In-vivo tau...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: November 28 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Microaggressions between members of a team occur often in medicine, even despite good intentions. Such situations call for difficult conversations that restore inclusivity, diversity, and a healthy work...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 10 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a pattern of injury caused by autoantibodies binding to specific target antigens, with accumulation of immune complexes along the subepithelial region of glomerular...
Leveraging Lessons from the Past - Insights
Sharing lessons learned from past process improvement and other projects conducted at Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Dec. 24 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup determines the clinical validity of hereditary colorectal cancer and polyposis susceptibility genes using the clinical genome resource clinical validity framework.
4 statistics that showcase the broad impact of laboratory medicine - Insights
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week is a time to appreciate the profound impact of laboratory medicine on healthcare and innovation.
B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia monitoring for minimal residual disease [Test in Focus] - Insights
Min Shi, M.D., Ph.D., a hematologist and co-director of Mayo Clinic's Flow Cytometry Laboratory, explains recent updates to the B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia minimal residual disease flow cytometry assay. This test is used to identify...
Testing to Identify Clinically Significant Chromosomal Abnormalities - Insights
This week's featured chromosomal microarray test in focus is presented by William Sukov, M.D., a pathologist and cancer geneticist at Mayo Clinic. He discusses when this test should be used for patients with renal tumors.
cyp2d6_comprehensive_cascade_testing_algorithm.pdf
01/2024© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. CYP2D6 Comprehensive Cascade Testing Algorithm* *Additional testing is performed to derive as accurate a phenotype as possible. AAlways...
MCL - Informed Consent for Genetic Testing for Deceased Individuals - MC1235-243
MCL - Informed Consent Genetic Testing Deceased Individuals - Informed Consent Genetic Testing Deceased Individuals Testing genetic conditions complex Prior providing consent
epilepsy_unexplained_refractory_and_or_familial_testing_algorithm.pdf
Unexplained refractory and/or suspect familial epilepsy: All patients should have completed ■ Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ■ Electroencephalogram Consider: metabolic or autoimmune testing based on clinical presentation (see...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: June 18 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup features highly discriminant methylated DNA markers for the non-endoscopic detection of Barrett's esophagus.
Specialized BioPharma accessioning team collaborates for quality assurance - Insights
At Mayo Clinic, quality is not an act, it’s a habit. This commitment extends into BioPharma Diagnostics, where a team of four quality assurance assistants and three lab processing assistants has recently come together as the BioPharma...
Learn about our sponsored testing program and how it can benefit both patients and healthcare providers.
August 2023 - Hematopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Hematopathology.
September 2023 - Cytogenetics & Hematopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case’s sub-specialties are Cytogenetics & Hematopathology.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: February 27 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Both targeted therapies and immunotherapies provide benefit in resected Stage III melanoma. We hypothesized that the combination of targeted and immunotherapy given prior to therapeutic lymph node...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 2 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Sarcomas are a recently identified group of undifferentiated round/spindle cell neoplasms with a predilection for the head and neck region.
MCL Erythrocytosis Patient Information MC1235177
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In this month's "Hot Topic," Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., identifies how to determine new vs. residual use of marijuana in a patient, and teaches how to calculate the carboxy-tetrahydrocannabinol (carboxy-THC) to creatinine ratio along with a...
In this month's "Hot Topic," Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., reviews pediatric venipuncture volumes in this year’s Phlebotomy Top Gun case-based presentation as requested by previous Phlebotomy conference attendees.
Autoimmune testing education - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is leading an evolution in autoimmune neurology diagnosis. Powered by expertise from our research labs, clinical labs, and Autoimmune Neurology Clinic, we have developed panels customized to address specific...
COVID-19 & influenza testing algorithm arms Mayo Clinic for the upcoming flu season - Insights
Flu season is just now unfolding. But this time, it’s piggy-backed with a pandemic, which threatens to spike with the colder weather as people huddle indoors. Adding to this conundrum is the unsettling fact that, for both COVID-19 and the...
Mayo Clinic Laboratories: Quality testing from start to finish - Insights
Guided by a patient-centric philosophy, Mayo Clinic Laboratories has a unique internal structure of quality specialists, coordinators, and engineers who constantly evaluate and improve laboratory operations. This structure supports a host...
Sorting through the Details of an Automation Solution - Insights
Laboratories face increasing pressure to automate their operations as they are challenged by a continuing increase in workload, a need to reduce expenditure, and a demand for accuracy and improved turnaround time—essentially doing more with...
antinuclear-antibody-interpretive-algorithm.pdf
© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. *Patterns reported only when clearly present 06/2025 Antinuclear Antibody Interpretive Algorithm NAIFA / Antinuclear Antibodies Hep-2 Substrate, IgG,...
MCL - Informed Consent for Genetic Testing - MC1235-117
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In a recent issue of Mayo Clinic's Digestive Diseases, Michael Camilleri, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic, and Leslie Donato, Ph.D., Co-Director for Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Clinical Laboratory, and Point of...
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team facilitates customized collaborations with diagnostic companies to support their clinical and research testing needs.
Tick-borne coinfection - Insights
Browse our suite of serological and molecular testing designed to detect tick-borne pathogen coinfections.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 28 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the clinical and pathology findings associated consistently with larger glomerular volume.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories upfront, screening enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay detects Coccidioides antibodies prior to testing by complement fixation (CF) or immunodiffusion (ID). Samples that result as reactive by are subsequently reflexed...
July 2023 - Breast Pathology Case 1 - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Breast Pathology.
The Expanding Reach of the Laboratory Outreach Program - Insights
The most successful laboratory outreach programs recognize the importance of serving multiple customers. From provider to patient to healthcare consumer, the laboratory has an opportunity to serve them all with high-quality results and...
Week in Review: April 29 - Insights
Today's highlights include: CDC estimates 3 in 4 kids have had coronavirus infections, virtual in-person cardiac rehabilitation provide similar benefits, and Mayo Clinic partners with AI startup to co-develop precision medicine.