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...
Oncology surveillance biomarker study enrolls patients and evaluates assay - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team supports companies from discovery to post-market in advancing their precision medicine initiatives. In this collaboration example, learn how BioPharma Diagnostics helped a biotech company...
Gastrointestinal study collects and tests patient specimens at multiple touchpoints - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other research companies to offer a wide range of laboratory testing and biopharma support for all phases of clinical trials. In this...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: February 13 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic) syndrome, caused by somatic mutations in UBA1, is an autoinflammatory disorder with diverse systemic manifestations. Thrombosis is a...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 30 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Incapacitated regulatory T cells (Tregs) contribute to immune-mediated diseases. Inflammatory Tregs are evident during human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, mechanisms driving the development...
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: January 9 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: To describe a 41-year-old woman with a history of neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease, on treatment with daily subcutaneous injections of 600 mg of recombinant interleukin-1 receptor...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: February 6 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Powassan virus (POWV) is an emerging arthropod-borne flavivirus, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, which has been associated with neuroinvasive disease and poor outcomes.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 23 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Measles virus (MV) vaccine strains have shown significant preclinical antitumor activity against glioblastoma (GBM), the most lethal glioma histology. In this first in human trial (NCT00390299), a...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 16 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Understanding the incidence, causes, and trends of sudden cardiac death (SCD) among young competitive athletes is critical to inform preventive policies.