Insights: Stories
Mayo Clinic Laboratories combines the expertise of world-renowned laboratorians and physicians to provide answers for patients’ serious and complex medical challenges.
These are the stories of the people throughout that journey — from the laboratorians conducting tests and delivering results, to the physicians guiding diagnosis and treatment, to the patients worldwide who need answers.
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New wtRNA-seq test detects fusions in 1,445 genes with high accuracy, improving cancer diagnosis, treatment decisions, and clinical trial eligibility.
This unique Mayo Clinic resource offers a novel portal into the study of gene mutations before they cause breast cancer.
Featured abstract: Nuclear GSK-3β and oncogenic KRas lead to the retention of pancreatic ductal progenitor cells phenotypically similar to those seen in IPMN.
Working together, Mayo Clinic laboratory medicine specialists and clinicians helped Elyn Simmons get her life back — and welcome two new lives to the world.
As a clinical laboratory technologist, Daniel Kronemann enjoys going beyond his day-to-day work as he explores new ways to enhance processes and systems in Bacteriology.
Featured abstract: Substance use screening in transplant populations.
Top highlights include: Monoclonal and oligoclonal anti-Platelet Factor 4 antibodies mediate VITT.
In her role as a proposal writer, Lisa Wortman Raring helps show clients everything Mayo Clinic Laboratories has to offer, making it clear how the organization can best meet their needs and the needs of their patients.
Top highlights include: Rapid exclusion of acute myocardial injury and infarction with a high sensitivity cardiac troponin T in the emergency department.
As Mayo Clinic’s Anatomic Pathology moves from traditional glass slides to digital images, the advance in technology is achieving clear benefits in collaboration, learning, and patient care.
Top highlights include: Genome-wide association study reveals novel genetic loci: a new polygenic risk score for mitral valve prolapse.
A pioneering researcher, Dr. Vanda Lennon has spent five decades delving into questions of neuroimmunology. Today, she continues that work as director of the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
Featured abstract: An overview of the clinical presentation, pathology, and the current therapeutic approach of the main representative disorders in the spectrum of glomerulonephritis.