Pathology Services - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
The consultative practice at Mayo Clinic Laboratories excels at delivering high quality diagnostic pathology through second-opinion consultations, a robust menu of subspecialty testing and staining, and digital pathology services.
New tests launched in June - Insights
In June 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced 28 new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Find out how our comprehensive hematology test menu aids in diagnosis and treatment across a wide range of complex pediatric hematologic disorders.
@2021 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Framework for Quality Updated: 12/13/2024 Mayo Clinic Laboratories measure quality not simply by accreditation and licensure, but also by how efficiently esoteric laboratory...
Cardiology Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
At Mayo Clinic, we know the importance of laboratory testing in a patient’s episode of care. Our unique combination of specialized laboratories and cardiology patient-care clinics allows us to reduce downstream costs with care-driven...
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...
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.
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.
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: Feb. 2019 - Insights
View a full list of new CPT codes, Test Classification Updates, LOINC Codes, and Z-Codes posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of February 2019.
CPT codes and LOINC update: November 2022 - Insights
This list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of November.
Highlighting MML Regional Service Representatives - Insights
Our Mayo Medical Laboratory regional service representatives provide outstanding support to our clients and have the opportunity to share the Mayo Clinic mission and expertise with laboratories around the world. To gain a good understanding...
Lab discoveries fuel updates for autoimmune movement disorders test - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories expanded movement disorders panel better identifies autoimmune conditions. Four recently identified biomarkers — septin-5, septin-7, neurochondrin, and adaptor protein-3B2 — have been added to the panel, and all...
COVID-19: The pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing - Insights
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting impact on the lives of millions of people around the world, including the many brave health care workers who risked their own health to provide lifesaving care to those infected by...
Phage immunoprecipitation sequencing identifies previously unknown disease biomarkers - Insights
In Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory, there are dozens of projects underway at once to develop new technologies, discover novel findings, validate new tests, and support physicians in providing advanced patient care. For...
Linda Hasadsri, M.D., Ph.D., explains carrier screening at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. Using targeted genotyping, our three focused panels evaluate genes associated with cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, and hemoglobinopathies, to...
Next-generation sequencing - Insights
Browse our full menu of genetic testing, which provides the highest quality molecular assays available.
Discover cutting-edge movement disorder diagnostics at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, encompassing autoimmune and hereditary conditions.
Revolutionizing Endometrial Cancer Diagnostics - Insights
Endometrial cancer affects thousands annually and ranks as the fourth most common cancer among women in the United States. At the forefront of innovative discoveries in endometrial cancer diagnostics are Mayo Clinic's Department of...
A journey to diagnosis: One patient's story of resilience and hope - Insights
For many, the path to a correct diagnosis can be long and filled with uncertainty. This story highlights the resilience and determination of one patient who navigated a complex medical journey to find answers and hope at Mayo Clinic. The...
An uncommon antibody, a life restored: Jori Pearson - Insights
Sophisticated laboratory testing solved a medical riddle and finally got Jori Pearson back on his feet, doing what he loves.
Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology - Insights
As Mayo Clinic’s Anatomic Pathology moves from traditional glass slides to digital images, the advance in technology is achieving clear benefits in collaboration, learning, and patient care.
How digital pathology provides faster answers - Insights
Almost four years ago, Mayo Clinic launched the Digital Pathology Program, a major pathology initiative. Phase 2 of this multi-phase rollout has recently been completed, which involved the implementation of cutting-edge digital equipment...
Specialized testing helps reverse effects of stiff-person syndrome: James Kypuros - Insights
One summer morning, James Kypuros awoke to find his toes stiffened like claws. Then he started having falls, which culminated in losing his ability to walk or even sit up without help. Diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, James wouldn’t...
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.
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,...
The Living Breast Biobank - Insights
This unique Mayo Clinic resource offers a novel portal into the study of gene mutations before they cause breast cancer.
Detecting danger: Dan O'Bryan - Insights
Dan O’Bryan didn’t think his dizziness and lightheadedness were anything to worry about. Nearly 100 miles away, the team at Mayo Clinic that was remotely monitoring Dan’s heart could see the truth.
Therapeutics events - Insights
TherapeuticS Creating the new standard of therapeutic management, together Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ evidence-based toxicology and pharmacogenomic testing
A journey to diagnosis: One patient's story of resilience and hope - Insights
For many, the path to a correct diagnosis can be long and filled with uncertainty. This story highlights the resilience and determination of one patient who navigated a complex medical journey to find answers and hope at Mayo Clinic. The...
For Billy Dowell Jr., a competitive golfer, focus, determination, and course correction are essential to excelling at the sport. These skills, along with routine follow-up care and testing, are also important to navigating a life impacted...
A Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics engagement offers partners access to Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ robust library of hematology evaluations.
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.
Yuma Regional Medical Center: Changing perceptions and powering growth - Insights
Looking to elevate laboratory operations, Yuma Regional’s hospital directors established a leadership model that pairs medical and administrative leaders, resulting in a changed perception of the laboratory’s ability to drive profitability...
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...
Our Staff, Our Stories: Darin Kittleson - Insights
From friendly neighbor, to a hero. Darin Kittleson was in the middle of his ordinary day snow plowing his driveway when he decided to plow his neighbor’s driveway, as well. That was when he heard the cry for help. Darin rushed inside as 911...
Collaboration Paves the Way for Rapid Discovery in Autoimmune Neurology - Insights
Using advanced technology, scientists at Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, Mayo Clinic and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have discovered an autoimmune disease that appears to affect men with testicular cancer.
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.
A team of Mayo Clinic pathologists have discovered a new tissue biomarker, DNAJB9, for fibrillary glomerulonephritis, a rare kidney disease of unknown pathogenesis and poor outlook—nearly half of all patients end up on dialysis within four...
Our staff, our stories: Ahmed and Alison Bashier - Insights
Looking back on their wedding, the Bashiers feel the event was a shining example of how greater empathy and understanding can be fostered between two very different cultures via a communal exchange of customs and traditions on an intimate...
Mayo Clinic’s cardiac (CV) remote monitoring service uses the compact MoMe Kardia cardiac monitoring device that yields a continuous, 24/7 stream of a patient’s ECG and motion data, no matter their location. Any troubling or burgeoning...
A decade-long search for answers ends at Mayo Clinic: Tyler Hart - Insights
After years of misdiagnosis, Tyler Hart found answers at Mayo Clinic, discovering he had NF155-IgG4 autoimmune nodopathy instead of CIDP
Multiomics: A new model for identifying biomarkers to predict severe COVID-19 outcomes - Insights
In a groundbreaking study, Mayo Clinic investigators have developed a multiomic molecular method to predict clinical COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outcomes better than traditional cytokines. Using a machine-learning-based prediction model, the team...
STAT testing is available on a limited basis for patients with a suspected or known inborn error of metabolism when there is an increased risk of illness or death due to metabolic decompensation or when testing will allow for emergent...
With the rise of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, multigene panel testing is expanding so rapidly that clinical practice is racing to keep pace. And questions within genetic tests have expanded along with it, making definitive...
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.
UofL Health – UofL Hospital physicians and laboratory scientists faced challenges in the ordering of autoimmune and paraneoplastic panels: duplicate orders that add unnecessary cost and omitted test orders that could provide the key to the...
A downward spiral undone: Jon Bratsch - Insights
Lying in an ICU bed as sick as he could get, Jon Bratsch thought he was past the point of no return. But when a Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ test revealed the source of his dire symptoms, everything changed. Today, Jon’s back to the life and...
Against the odds: Alex Kraatz - Insights
As a two-time brain tumor survivor, Alex Kraatz has been through more harrowing medical experiences in his 34 years than most people face in a lifetime. But Alex’s fighting spirit, coupled with precision laboratory testing and cutting-edge...