Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: August 22 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Association of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease with cognition and medical comorbidities in a biracial cohort.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 4 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Emergence of inducible macrolide resistance in mycobacterium chelonae due to broad-host-range plasmid and chromosomal variants of the novel 23S rRNA methylase gene, erm(55).
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 25 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: The clinical and molecular spectrum of ETV6 mutated myeloid neoplasms.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 11 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Comparison of two assays to diagnose herpes simplex virus in patients with central nervous system infections.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: June 13 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Plasma biomarkers for prediction of Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: May 9 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 6 (PCSK6) is a likely antigenic target in membranous nephropathy and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: May 16 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Development and validation of an acute respiratory distress syndrome prediction model in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Updated lung injury prediction score.
Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy [Test in Focus] - Insights
Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a serious but rare muscle disease strongly associated with autoantibodies to either the protein signal recognition particle (SRP) or the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: April 19 - Insights
Top highlights include: Advances in neuroimaging for brain charts for the human lifespan.
Labor Day Specimen Shipment Alert - Insights
Due to the Labor Day holiday (recognized on Monday, September 5th), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead.
Independence Day Specimen Shipment Alert - Insights
Due to the Independence Day holiday, Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead.
Labor Day Holiday Shipment Schedules - Insights
Due to the Labor Day holiday (recognized on Monday, September 4th), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure specimen viability and avoid turnaround time delays, follow the guidelines...
Should You Worry if You Accidentally Swallow an Insect? - Insights
During summer activities, it's bound to happen. But how dangerous is it to accidentally swallow a bug? Bobbi Pritt, M.D., a microbiologist, pathologist, and Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester,...
Independence Day Specimen Shipment Alert - Insights
Due to the Independence Day holiday, Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead.
Memorial Day Specimen Shipment Alert - Insights
Due to the Memorial Day holiday (recognized on Monday, May 30), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, please plan...
Memorial Day Specimen Shipment Alert - Insights
Due to the Memorial Day holiday (recognized on Monday, May 31), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead and...
New tests launched in April - Insights
In April 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced 10 new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Engaging the Next Generation of Lab Professionals - Insights
In this episode of Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ “Leveraging the Laboratory” podcast, Isak joins the Mayo Clinic Laboratories outreach team — Jane Hermansen, Ellen Dijkman Dulkes, and Brianne Newton — to talk about his unique experience in...
Copeptin [Test in Focus] - Insights
Joshua Bornhorst, Ph.D., gives an overview of the new Copeptin test available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories. He discusses when this testing should be ordered, how this testing improves upon previous testing approaches, and what clinical...
Autoimmune Myelopathy Evaluation [Test in Focus] - Insights
Patients with autoimmune myelopathy present with subacute onset and rapid progression of spinal cord symptoms (weakness, gait difficulties, loss of sensation, neuropathic pain, and bowel and bladder dysfunction). Autoimmune myelopathy...
Advancing Lupus Treatment With Modern Diagnostics: Bill Morice, M.D., Ph.D. - Insights
In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, is joined by special guest Donald Thomas, M.D., a rheumatologist and lupus researcher. They discuss how Mayo Clinic...
Novel Laboratory Tests Transform Lupus Management: Bill Morice, M.D., Ph.D. - Insights
In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, is joined by special guests Bernard Rubin, D.O., MPH, chief medical officer of Progentec Diagnostics, and Melissa...
Orexin-A/Hypocretin-1 for the Diagnosis of Type 1 Narcolepsy [Test in Focus] - Insights
The standard test for the diagnosis of narcolepsy is the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). The MSLT is a complex test to perform as well as to interpret. The orexin-A/hypocretin-1 test is a sensitive and specific alternative to the MSLT...
Holiday Specimen Shipment - Insights
Due to the Independence Day holiday (recognized on Saturday, July 4), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered.
Pediatric CNS Disorder Evaluations [Test in Focus] - Insights
Autoimmune encephalitis and myelitis is increasingly recognized as a cause of CNS disease in children and teens. Andrew McKeon, M.B., B.Ch., M.D, gives an overview of this test available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories. He discusses when...
Global Diagnostic Trends and What They Mean for Laboratories:Bill Morice, M.D., Ph.D. - Insights
In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, and William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, discuss global trends in...
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...
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.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ novel lupus testing, offered in partnership with Progentec Diagnostics, can help characterize disease activity and predict disease flares.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ novel lupus testing, offered in partnership with Progentec Diagnostics, can help characterize disease activity and predict disease flares.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Nov. 12 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights a mechanism for preventing asymmetric histone segregation onto replicating DNA strands.
Talking omicron with Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D. - Insights
With the omicron variant grabbing headlines around the world, media outlets have turned to experts like Dr. Binnicker to help clarify the effect this new variant could have and what it might mean for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opioids remain a mainstay of pain management, upping the stakes for monitoring prescription compliance and detecting abuse. Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., Director of the Clinical and Forensic Toxicology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, and Loralie...
On the Sept. 2 broadcast of Mayo Clinic Radio, co-hosts Tracy McCray and Tom Shives, M.D., spoke with Justin Kreuter, M.D., Medical Director of Mayo’s Blood Donor Program, about new eligibility guidelines for blood donors with previous...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 16 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: R0 resection and radiation therapy have been associated with improved overall survival (OS) in patients with thymic carcinoma (TC). Here, we analyzed which subgroups of patients derive the greatest...
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: March 26 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Implant-associated infections (IAIs) pose serious threats to patients and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These infections may be difficult to diagnose due, in part, to...
Tick Dragging with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. - Insights
On a recent tick drag with Minnesota Department of Health researchers, Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Lab Medicine and...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: July 9 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the association between inherited germline mutations in cancer predisposition genes and risk of pancreatic cancer.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 14 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Despite advances in understanding the genetic abnormalities in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) and the development of JAK2 inhibitors, there is an urgent need to devise new treatment strategies,...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 5 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) in BRCA2 are a common result of hereditary cancer genetic testing. While more than 4,000 unique VUSs, comprised of missense or intronic variants, have been...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 21 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the development and validation of a prostate cancer genomic signature that predicts early androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) treatment response following radical prostatectomy.
Demystifying the Tick with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. - Insights
The "Mpls-St Paul" magazine article highlights Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, and her research on...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 24 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the best tumor size cut-points for renal cell carcinoma staging.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 3 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights advancing diagnostics to address antibacterial resistance.
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: 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.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: December 5 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: No human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) failure has been documented in the United States using modern cell culture-based vaccines. In January 2021, an 84-year-old male died from rabies 6 months...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: September 19 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: There is a need to develop safe and effective pharmacologic options for the treatment of celiac disease (CeD); however, consensus on the appropriate design and configuration of randomized controlled...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 31 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: It is widely held that heart failure (HF) does not cause exertional hypoxaemia, based upon studies in HF with reduced ejection fraction, but this may not apply to patients with HF and preserved ejection...