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Graduation for the Histology Technician Program, part of the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, was held on October 3. The class of 2018 features three graduates: My Huynh, Renny Tran, and Lara Hall.

Elizabeth Atneosen, a student in the Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratory Science program, talks about the rewards of being in the program.

Carol Morales hadn't planned to celebrate her 80th birthday at work. But her colleagues couldn't let the milestone pass without a proper celebration for the woman they call an "inspiration."

Five Mayo Clinic sites have received the Vizient 2018 Bernard A. Birnbaum, M.D., Quality Leadership Award for high-quality patient care. This award honors superior performance among academic medical centers and community hospitals nationwide for delivering safe, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable patient-centered care.

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two- to three-fold increase in myeloma diagnoses among African-Americans. Researchers also demonstrated the ability to study race and racial admixture more accurately using DNA analysis. The findings were published today in Blood Cancer Journal.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights paraneoplastic neuronal intermediate filament autoimmunity.

For almost three decades, Steve Eckdahl has worked the evening shift in Mayo Clinic's Toxic Metals Laboratory in order to pursue another passion of his during the day: his 2,000-plus-tree apple orchard.

Janice Bergquist, Education Specialist at Mayo Medical Laboratories, provides the top seven reasons to embrace a mobile conference app.

Robert Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Individualized Medicine Research and a Consultant in the Division of Laboratory Genetics and Genomics, was awarded a National Institutes of Health R01 grant.

R. Ross Reichard, M.D., Chair of the CAP Forensic Pathology Committee and Associate Professor of Pathology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, discusses the new CAP checklist for forensic autopsies.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights radical versus partial nephrectomy for cT1 renal cell carcinoma.

When Mayo Clinic scientists Jonathan and Paula Hoyne learned that their 7-year-old son had type 1 diabetes, they began learning anything they could about the disease, including how they could help others.

Joseph Maleszewski, M.D., Co-Medical Director of Tissue Registry and Consultant in the Division of Anatomic Pathology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, comments on the expansion of Mayo Clinic's Tissue Registry Building.