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This week’s research roundup features an expert review of the AGA clinical practice update on the management of refractory helicobacter pylori infection.

A genetic counselor with Mayo Clinic Laboratories for the last 15 years, Cassie Runke relishes her role serving as a resource for health care providers who are looking to help their patients find answers through genetic testing.

Top highlights include: understanding the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 terminology, and a patient's experience with a new Mayo Clinic platform.

This week’s research roundup features a study on in Patients with membranous lupus nephritis, exostosin-positivity and exostosin-negativity that represent two different phenotypes.

This week’s research roundup features a study on circulating markers of NADH-reductive stress correlate with mitochondrial disease severity.

Top highlights include: maintaining your mental health during challenging times, concerns with COVID-19 variants, and unchecked COVID-19 spread leads to virus variants.

This week’s research roundup features a study on CD10 (Neprilysin) Expression: A potential adjunct in the sistinction of hibernoma from morphologic mimics.

With the rise of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, multigene panel testing is expanding so rapidly that clinical practice is racing to keep pace. And questions within genetic tests have expanded along with it, making definitive answers more challenging to come by. Experts in the Genomics Laboratory in Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology work to explain this often misunderstood technology.

Dendritic cells play a crucial role in the body's immune response. Research has shown that too few of these cells in the blood may signal a defect in innate immunity. Up to this point, however, no clinical test has been available to count dendritic cells.

This week’s research roundup features a study on changing paradigms in diagnosis and treatment of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM).

Top highlights include: how much protection do face masks actually provide, caring for older adults during COVID-19, and one man's story from being vaccine hesitant to vaccine proponent.

Patrice Brown, PA(ASCP), shares her story of growing up in Virginia and moving to Rochester, Minnesota to work at Mayo Clinic. She also shares her unique perspective of traveling internationally as COVID-19 was starting to spread.

This week’s research roundup features a study on the IFCC clinical application of cardiac biomarkers committee's appraisal of the 2020 ESC guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: getting cardiac troponin right.