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This week’s Research Roundup highlights the effect of inorganic nitrite versus a placebo on exercise capacity among patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Ravinder Singh, Ph.D., Director of the Mayo Clinic Endocrine Laboratory, in Rochester, Minnesota, shares his story about growing up in India and practicing Sikhism.

Allan Jaffe, M.D., Consultant and Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Clinical Core Laboratory Services, with a joint appointment in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, has received the Reviewer of the Year Award from the prestigious European Heart Journal.

The College of American Pathologists Board of Governors has selected Manish Gandhi, M.D., as the Vice Chair of the CAP Histocompatibility and Identity Testing Committee.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the association of apolipoprotein E ε4 with transactive response DNA-binding protein 43.

With no single best approach, laboratories must tailor testing based upon preanalytical factors, their patient populations, and other factors unique to their institutions.

Joseph Yao, M.D., and Cheryl James discuss the use of proprietary laboratory analyses codes at Mayo Clinic.

Mayo Clinic–Mayo Clinic Laboratories recently won the Moneyball Award for Excellence in Customer Analytics at the CC Awards at the 14thAnnual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange event.

Lisa Becker, Quality Management Coordinator at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, was recently awarded first place for her poster presentation at the 13th Annual Lab Quality Confab, held in Atlanta in October.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights a mechanism for preventing asymmetric histone segregation onto replicating DNA strands.

Kevin Halling, M.D., Ph.D., recently received the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Meritorious Service Award at the AMP 2018 Annual Meeting and Expo in San Antonio, Texas. The award recognizes recipients for their dedication and effort to AMP and its members.

Thomas Huntley, MT(ASCP), Education Coordinator, discusses how to give effective feedback to diminish undesired behaviors, provide the opportunity for others to grow, strengthen interpersonal relationships, and discover personal changes that you could make too.

On September 24, the National Institutes of Health awarded Mayo Clinic funding to serve as the new Metabolomics Research Core for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. In this article, we explore the role of metabolomics in medicine at Mayo Clinic, both in research and in patient care. And we celebrate the role that Mayo Clinic plays as a leader in the science of metabolomics on a national and an international scale.