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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Mayo Clinic Laboratories is applying AI where it helps most today, strengthening daily workflows while keeping experts firmly in control. From faster specimen intake and triage to data‑informed scheduling, first‑pass support for complex analyses, draft interpretive reporting, and reliable digital pathology quantification, teams use AI to organize information, reduce repetitive steps, and improve consistency. Human‑in‑the‑loop oversight, fit‑for‑workflow design, and regulatory‑aware communication keep the focus on safe, practical gains that benefit patients, clinicians, and laboratorians.
Lying in an ICU bed as sick as he could get, Jon Bratsch thought he was past the point of no return. But when a Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ test revealed the source of his dire symptoms, everything changed. Today, Jon’s back to the life and family he loves.
Topic's Include: Study confirms effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, history of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccines timeline, and Mayo Clinic minute: helping kids struggling with the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic.
As a bid coordinator, Meredith Clark’s work helps expand testing capabilities for Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients, so they can offer the right test at the right time for the right patient.
Today's Topic Features: Androgen deprivation therapy use and duration with definitive radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis.
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic expert discourages throat swab COVID-19 test ‘hack’, and midwest COVID-19 situation update/predictive modeling and what’s next?
Today's Topic Features: Measurable residual disease does not preclude prolonged progression-free survival in CLL treated with ibrutinib.
A tenacious fighter, Joy Carol never lost hope that a mysterious condition that had stripped her of her ability to move would be identified. Hope turned into reality when a Mayo Clinic Laboratories test identified the cause of her illness and opened the door to successful treatment.
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic Minute: Looking ahead after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic, cancer treatment may inhibit immune response to COVID-19 vaccination, and Mayo Clinic Q&A- why getting infected with COVID-19 is still a bad idea.
Sainu Owusu-Afriyie has held a wide range of laboratory roles throughout her career at Mayo Clinic. Now she’s focused on strategic management, where the work can sometime be ambiguous, but the focus remains squarely on benefitting patients.
Today's Topic Features: Clinical, histological and molecular profiling of different stages of alcohol-related liver disease.
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic’s statement on the declaration of local emergency requiring masking in indoor spaces in Rochester, how to decide what mask is best for you, and what is ‘flurona’ and why a Mayo Clinic expert says flu cases are rising.
To safeguard patient samples, staff in Mayo Clinic’s Histology Laboratory devised an inventive way to ensure that none of the paraffin-embedded blocks processed in the lab ever ends up in the trash.