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Global capabilities - Insights

Check out how Mayo Clinic Laboratories optimized global capabilities facilitate individualized solutions that ensure international clients receive expeditious, accurate answers.

Nonradioactive assay helps diagnose heparin reaction - Insights

Rajiv Pruthi, M.B.B.S., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ serotonin release assay achieves high sensitivity and specificity while avoiding the use of radioactive materials. Serotonin release testing is an important tool in the...

Neuro-Oncology Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories

At Mayo Clinic, we offer a comprehensive approach to neuro-oncology testing that focuses on the best outcomes for the patient

Communique - Insights

Communiqué takes a deep dive into how Mayo Clinic Laboratories advances patient care, research, and education through laboratory medicine. Our experts are solving the most serious and complex medical challenges for patients worldwide.

Respiratory viruses - Insights

Browse our full suite of serology and PCR testing for respiratory viruses like influenza, RSV, and more.

Frequently asked questions - Insights

Check out how chromosomal microarray testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories can help optimize treatment for neurological tumors.

One Test, Multiple Targets: Zeroing in on Autoimmune Movement Disorders - Insights

A movement disorder might be caused by the body’s immune system, which is meant to fight infections, suddenly attacking the brain. Fortunately, an “autoimmune movement disorder” can often be treated—once its cause is discovered.

October 2023 - Coagulation - Insights

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

April 2023 - Ophthalmic Pathology - Insights

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

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Cytogenetic Testing for Pediatric Patients With Hematologic Malignancies - Insights

In this month's "Hot Topic," Patricia Greipp, D.O., discusses fluorescence in situ hybridization, or FISH testing, particularly related to pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies.

Raising the Bar on Newborn Screening Test Performance - Insights

Newborn screening panels that test for a variety of conditions are available in every state; however, test performance and response rate by each state are very different. Mayo Clinic's Biochemical Genetics Laboratory created the...

Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarkers - Insights

In this month's "Hot Topic," Alicia Algeciras, Ph.D., DABCC, and Joshua Bornhorst, Ph.D., DABCC, discuss Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers.

Pathways Case Studies: December 2022 - Insights

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

Pathways Case Studies: June 2023 - Insights

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

A novel testing approach for newly identified VEXAS syndrome - Insights

VEXAS syndrome is a severe autoinflammatory disease that results in a spectrum of rheumatologic and hematologic conditions. The underlying cause of newly identified VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome —...

Carbohydrate metabolism - Insights

Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories testing for carbohydrate metabolism can identify genetic variants and confirm diagnosis of these complex conditions.

August 2023 - Biochemical Genetics - Insights

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

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Solutions - Insights

Learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ outreach solutions can enhance and promote the clinical, business, and operational relevance of the hospital laboratory.

Hereditary Alzheimer's disease and dementia - Insights

Learn about our genetic testing for Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia, and CADASIL.

Capabilities - Insights

Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ test offerings and services can help hospital laboratories enhance patient care and laboratory performance.

Platelet Transmission Electron Microscopy and Flow Cytometry - Insights

In this "Hot Topic," Dong Chen, M.D., Ph.D., describes how flow cytometry, electron micrographic study, and molecular testing are used to diagnose platelet function disorders.

MCL Molecular Genetics Inherited Cancer Syndromes Patient Information MC123598

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Patients with Blood Cancer Precursor at Risk of Developing Cancer Even after 30 Years - Insights

Patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance are at risk of progressing to multiple myeloma or a related cancer─even after 30 years of stability, according to findings of a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in...

New High-Resolution Targeted Opioid Screen: Superior Sensitivity and Specificity to Evaluate Adherence to Prescribed Opioid Therapy - Insights

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., discusses the high-resolution targeted opioid screening test from Mayo Clinic Laboratories, which offers sensitivity and specificity for use in the monitoring and management of patients who...

Surprises in Coagulation Testing - Insights

In this “Hot Topic,” William Nichols, M.D., presents a case study that demonstrates how pre- and postanalytic variables of the patient and blood samples can have confounding effects on the laboratory evaluation of coagulation disorders.

Life of a Specimen - Insights

Take a deeper look at the care provided to laboratory testing specimens along their meticulous journey through Mayo Clinic Laboratories testing.

Gastroenterology - Insights

Find out how our unique tests, methodologies, and reference ranges provide fast, accurate results for complex pediatric gastroenterology conditions.

Staffing to Workload in Phlebotomy Areas: Indirect Effort - Insights

Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses staffing to workload in phlebotomy areas with a focus on indirect effort, which includes tasks performed that don’t involve the patient or a patient’s sample.

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December 2023 - Neuropathology - Insights

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

Frontotemporal dementia and ALS - Insights

Learn more about how detection of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia paved the way for gene-targeted therapies for patients.

Pathways Case Studies: April 2021 - Insights

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

Antifungal Drug Susceptibility Testing of Yeast: A Primer for Beginners - Insights

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Nancy Wengenack, Ph.D., discusses susceptibility testing of yeast for those who are considering performing it in their laboratory, perhaps for the first time, or for those who choose to send their yeast isolates...

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

The Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project - Insights

This is a 6-part series describing the products and clinical tools of a laboratory quality improvement project called Region 4 Stork, or R4S.

Myasthenia Gravis [Test in Focus] - Insights

Christopher Klein, M.D., discusses Mayo Clinic’s updated myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton syndrome testing approach. Automatic reflex to second-line testing saves time and increases sensitivity and specificity to confirm diagnosis in...

Gadolinium Accumulation in Brain Tissue following Contrast-Enhanced MRI Has Not Been Shown to Have Harmful Side Effects - Insights

Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) have revolutionized MRIs by increasing the clinical utility and detection sensitivity of these exams. GBCAs also contain gadolinium, a rare earth metal with unique chemical properties. This article...

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,...

About us - Insights

At BioPharma Diagnostics, we are inspired by Mayo Clinic’s history of collaboration and breaking down barriers to change medicine. That’s why we bring Mayo Clinic expertise and quality to each project — from consulting through discovery to...

Business solutions - Insights

Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories helps hospital laboratories reduce costs and grow revenue.

Mayo Clinic Offers New Prostate Cancer Test from Beckman Coulter, Reduces Unnecessary Biopsies - Insights

The prostate health index or phi test reduces the need for prostate cancer biopsies by 30 percent.

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...