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As published in the summer issue of Minnesota Physician, Kevin Halling, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the Genomics Laboratory, recently participated in the 47th session of the Minnesota Health Care Roundtable. The topic was, “Precision Medicine: A New Approach to Care.”

Nikola Baumann, Ph.D., Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory and Central Processing Laboratory, and Brooke Katzman, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Hospital Clinical Laboratory and Point of Care, at Mayo Clinic, recently discussed biotin interference in immunoassays in an article in 360Dx.

In 1939, in Rochester, Minnesota, a young man named Robert Tierney was playing second base for the city's American Legion baseball team when he crossed paths with another of the game's all-time greats: The Iron Horse himself, Lou Gehrig.

Jane Hermansen, Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories, and current President of CLMA, recently participated in an interview featured in "Medical Laboratory Observer" about empowering laboratory leaders to achieve excellence.

When you have a physical exam, often you'll get a routine blood test. By measuring components in your blood, the test may reveal issues that need further evaluation. Rajiv Pruthi, M.B.B.S., a Mayo Clinic hematologist, explains what health care providers look for in their patients' blood.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has awarded a research grant to Fergus Couch, Ph.D., for his research proposal, “Inherited Genetic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer.” Dr. Couch will receive $250,000 to use toward his research efforts between October of this year and October 2018.

Whether you shop online, hit flea markets and garage sales, or peruse high-end antique stores, one Mayo Clinic-themed collectible item that frequently appears is the postage stamp that depicts William J. Mayo, M.D., and Charles H. Mayo, M.D. In addition to honoring the Mayo brothers, this stamp tells the story of citizen advocacy and the contributions of several artists.

Last month in Rochester, the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences welcomed 40 Minnesota high school juniors and seniors to tour various areas of the Mayo Clinic campus as a part of this year’s Career Immersion Program.

Nancy Reagan liked to say she had a "magical friendship" with Mayo Clinic, since it was a future surgeon's sleight-of-hand that introduced her to the institution. Mrs. Reagan, who died March 6, 2016, was a loyal Mayo patient and advocate along with her husband, former President Ronald Reagan, for more than 30 years. But her initial ties to Mayo Clinic went back much further.

When construction crews broke ground on an expansion project for the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2015, one of the earliest decisions they and the City of Rochester faced was deciding what to do with the iconic bronze statue of Drs. William and Charles Mayo. The Mayo brothers had stood outside the building’s entrance for years, welcoming visitors to Rochester (and, as it turns out, hiding a time capsule beneath their feet).

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of Mayo’s Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory Services, co-authored an article review in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology on an update on malaria diagnostics and test utilization.

When the iconic Plummer Building was constructed on Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus during the late 1920s, the building's designer and namesake, Henry S. Plummer, M.D., made sure it included a number of bas relief caricatures that would help root the building in place and time.

Lisa Zerby, a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, is carrying on her family’s long-standing tradition of blood donation as a third-generation donor.