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As a diagnostics platform company that provides serious or complex laboratory testing, Mayo Clinic Laboratories is constantly working to advance patient care and broaden access to specialized testing. Learn about the latest news from Mayo Clinic Laboratories here, including new test launches, collaborations, operational updates, and more.
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Mayo Clinic Laboratories is transforming diagnostics with innovations in 2025 that turned research into real-world solutions for better patient care.
Topic highlights include: New Mayo Clinic scanner is first of its kind in North America, Mayo Clinic Health System allergist shares advice for finding relief this allergy season, Vaccine appears to protect against monkeypox, CDC says
New research led by the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center; and Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine has identified the biologic mechanism of a germline alteration that may be critical for developing new therapies to treat and prevent a type of brain tumor.
In September 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced ten new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic Health System turns 30, Doctors say now is time to get flu shot, White House releases strategy for ending hunger in US by 2030
Due to hurricane Ian, Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered.
In an effort to eliminate interpretation mistakes and in turn improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients who have kidney stones, a team of researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology recently conducted a 12-month study to determine whether the use of artificial intelligence-trained algorithms can find errors in manually reviewed and reported kidney stone composition results.
Topic highlights include: White House launches monkeypox research agenda, Mayo Clinic: collaborations, startups to drive innovation, Why the latest screening tests and treatments offer hope for ovarian cancer
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic health system experts say mental health issues on the rise, New York declares a state of emergency over polio, U.S. reaches medical milestone with millionth organ transplant
Topic highlights include: Five ways you’ll exercise smarter in the future, Scientists discovered an antibody that can take out all COVID-19 variants, Mayo launches accelerator dedicated to gene and cell therapies
Darci Block, Ph.D., co-director of the Central Clinical Lab in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses how and when autoverification is used and not used to help verify the approximately 8,000 specimens that are sent to the department’s Central Clinical Lab every day.
Two leaders have been announced to lead Mayo Clinic Laboratories and other diagnostic services in the biopharma and cardiovascular spaces. William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., has been named CEO and president and Mary Jo Williamson has been named chief administrative officer.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic working to commercialize molecular analyzer technology, Mayo Clinic expert provides tips for reducing dementia risk, Putting patients' needs at the heart of a care model