In the second quarter of 2025, Mayo Clinic Laboratories expanded its test catalog with several innovative new tests.

The laboratory test catalog is no longer just a reference list — it’s a strategic asset. By expanding its content, laboratories can improve satisfaction and experience.

After mysterious neurological symptoms began in 2010, Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., was diagnosed with paraneoplastic syndrome, a rare condition that led to groundbreaking research and test development at Mayo Clinic. Years later, pulmonary fibrosis and a double lung transplant would test him once again — and redefine his resilience.

In this episode of Mayo Clinic Laboratories “Leveraging the Laboratory” podcast, host Jane Hermansen, outreach manager at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, talks with outreach solutions strategists Ellen Dijkman Dulkes and Brianne Newton about supplies. Having appropriate supplies is the critical first step in collecting and preserving specimens.

Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Virology Laboratory, provides an update on the ongoing global avian influenza outbreak and what’s being done to prepare for a potential human-to-human outbreak.

Top highlights include: Adderall shortage is taking a toll, scientists are reconsidering the dangers of prospecting for unknown viruses, and can community paramedcine improve health outcomes in rural America?

In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, and William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, discuss how representation and advocacy make a difference in regulatory outcomes.

As a field service coordinator at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Spencer Beekmann spends much of his time onboarding and training new staff on the Client Site Specimen Processing and Regional Service Representative teams. After seven years at Mayo Clinic, Spencer has gained deep respect for the organization’s patient-centric approach to care.

In this “Hot Topic,” Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., highlights Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ AI-augmented kidney stone test and discusses the proper procedures for collecting and processing kidney stones to provide accurate, cost-effective analysis of patients’ kidney stones in a timely manner.

Having an efficient and effective supply provision program is a cornerstone for laboratory outreach program success. By providing adequate specimen collection supplies in compliance with current regulations, the outreach laboratory-customer relationship is certain to succeed.

In this test-specific episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Rong He, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' IDHQ test improves upon next generation sequencing for assessing AML treatment options.

This week's Research Roundup feature: A stress-induced cilium-to-PML-NB route drives senescence initiation.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is excited to participate in the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, taking place in person in Boston on April 22–27, 2023.

Top highlights include: Government to launch $300M Azlheimer's research database, new COVID variant XBB.1.16 spotted in 18 US states, and novel treatment shows promise against rare cancer in kids.

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Shane Ferraro, M.H.S., PA(ASCP), an assistant supervisor of pathologists’ assistants in the Division of Anatomic Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to talk about the important innovation of 3D scanning in pathology.