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This week’s Research Roundup highlights the genomic analysis using regularized regression in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched “Transfusion Toons” as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.

Jane Hermansen, Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota, recently authored an article featured in MedicalLab Management on the 2014 Protecting Access to Medicare Act, which went into effect January 1, 2018.

Each year, Mayo Clinic's In the Loop blog looks back and shares some favorite stories of the year gone by. Here is the second of 17 stories from 2017, featuring a wedding in the hospital.

What is your organization doing to help foster and promote creativity within the workplace? Creativity is a skill that is needed in the workplace now more than ever.

Elizabeth Gamache, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, highlights her experience with clinical rotations.

Encephalitis caused by the immune system attacking the brain is similar in frequency to encephalitis from infections, Mayo Clinic researchers report in Annals of Neurology.

Mayo Clinic employees in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology showed their support for heart disease awareness on National Wear Red Day, Feb. 2.

Beth Pitel, CG(ASCP), Development Technologist I in the Genomics Laboratory, presented at the 2017 Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) Annual Meeting, and it was met with high praise.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights cryptogenic cirrhosis and sitosterolemia, a treatable disease if identified but fatal if missed.

A recent BuzzFeed article reported on 22-year-old Katie Stephens and her boyfriend, Eddie Zytner, a Canadian couple who recently went on a beach vacation in the Dominican Republic. During their vacation, they both developed cutaneous larva migrans, a skin infection caused by hookworms. 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, weighs in on the infection.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched “Transfusion Toons” as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., discusses why he thinks "design thinking" is particularly useful for the laboratory.