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Todd Walker is a laboratory supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Specimen Operations, where he helps lead the department that serves as the gateway between collecting and delivering specimens and getting them processed. Todd credits his diverse, agile team and the impressive global logistics infrastructure that allows them to support the processing of 40,000 specimens in a day.

This week's research roundup features: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors mimicking gynecologic disease: clinicopathological analysis of 20 cases.

This week's research roundup features: Motor-neuron-disease-like phenotype associated with IgLON5 disease.

Working with Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics clients, Grant Elmquist is engaged in a wide range of activities that span research and science technology, as well as a host of disease states, all with the end goal of enhancing patient care.

This week's research roundup features: Structural Cardiac Abnormalities in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation-Flutter and Myocardial Injury.

Diagnostic tests are a critical part of America’s health infrastructure and helping people live healthier lives. But in a recent op-ed published on RealClearPolicy, William Morice II, M.D., president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories and Matt Sause, president and CEO of Roche Diagnostics North America, explain how the well-intended Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) puts vital diagnostic tests at risk.

Bringing together advanced testing technology, unparalleled expertise, and a patient-focused approach, Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ new high-resolution urine drug testing profile, ADMPU, evaluates for 22 drug classes including alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine, enabling clarity on substance use and precision insights that propel treatment.

This week's research roundup features: PFKFB3 works on the FAK-STAT3-SOX2 axis to regulate the stemness in MPM.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories has validated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's test kit for monkeypox and will begin to ramp up testing.

As a two-time brain tumor survivor, Alex Kraatz has been through more harrowing medical experiences in his 34 years than most people face in a lifetime. But Alex’s fighting spirit, coupled with precision laboratory testing and cutting-edge treatments, have propelled him forward, keeping him hopeful despite the odds.

As manager of the department’s Education Program, Deb Hagen-Moe and her team welcome new staff to Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Then they continue to offer a wide range of continuing education and professional development to those staff members throughout their careers.

This week’s research roundup features: The publication impact of the first 100 THOR Network publications by bibliometric and social network analyses. 

This week’s research roundup features: Understanding "Patient refuses" among 90+ year old patients with cancer or presumed cancer.