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On Tuesday, October 24, Mayo Clinic employees at the Superior Drive Support Center in Rochester, Minnesota, held their annual Halloween-themed fundraiser for the United Way. The festivities included the annual pumpkin-decorating contest, raffle items, karaoke, and, of course, food.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights rates of hippocampal atrophy and presence of post-mortem TDP-43 in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

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.

Delsin Carter, International Regional Service Representative for Mayo Medical Laboratories, brings leading-edge medical testing to distant corners of the world by training staff at hospitals, clinics, and laboratories in Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia to prepare and ship samples to Rochester for testing.

Learn how a fatherless boy became the student of a famous scientist—and how John Dalton’s values are part of Mayo Clinic today.

This case presents an unusual colon polyp on an asymptomatic early 70 year-old male. At the time of screening colonoscopy, two small left colon polyps were noted and excised. What is the diagnosis?

Curt Hanson, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Mayo Medical Laboratories, recently spoke with Modern Healthcare about Mayo Clinic's electronic health record and how fewer lab tests can produce better patient results.

Ann Moyer, M.D., Ph.D., discusses an additional gene, NUDT15, which is important in the prediction of thiopurine-related toxicity This gene has been added to our TPMT genotyping assay available through Mayo Medical Laboratories.

Makenzie Fong, a student in the Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, reflects on the past twelve weeks of the program.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights how human DBR1 modulates the recycling of snRNPs to affect alternative RNA splicing and contributes to the suppression of cancer development.

Allison Stellmaker-Knott, Education Associate for Mayo Medical Laboratories, has been a dedicated blood donor since her new employee orientation more than 10 years ago. Allison's parents were active blood donors, but it wasn’t until she began her career at Mayo Clinic that she realized the importance of giving blood.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the role of deficient DNA mismatch repair status in patients with stage III colon cancer treated with FOLFOX adjuvant chemotherapy.

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.