At Mayo Clinic Laboratories, we believe all patients deserve access to world-class diagnostic care. We work with hospitals and healthcare providers around the world to deliver unparalleled expertise and innovative diagnostic evaluations that solve the most complicated cases.
Fully integrated with Mayo Clinic and backed by more than 150 years of clinical experience, Mayo Clinic Laboratories was built upon a tradition of knowledge sharing to improve healthcare around the world. When you work with us, you gain access to the world’s most sophisticated test menu, world-renowned experts, and educational opportunities to strengthen your practice, advance knowledge, and improve patient outcomes.
Focused on quality
At Mayo Clinic Laboratories, test development is based on patient need and guided by quality management protocols modeled on standards and guidelines from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. Our extensive test validation includes a breadth of specimens with rare abnormalities. Our laboratories are CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited, and we participate in U.S. and international proficiency programs.
Commitment to education
The exchange of knowledge is a founding principle of Mayo Clinic. In this tradition, we provide a wide range of educational offerings to help our clients increase understanding.
Enhanced patient outcomes
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is dedicated to the health and well-being of our patients, which means helping providers deliver care in their local settings through the utilization of our comprehensive subspecialty test menu. Our mission is grounded in our belief that the patient’s needs are paramount, and our clients receive access to:
“We treat all of the specimens we receive with the same high degree of care and quality, regardless of where the sample is coming from. We could be testing a sample from a patient that lives in Rochester, Minnesota, or from someone that lives halfway across the world.”
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory
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In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, and Div Dubey, M.B.B.S., a neurologist and co-director of the Clinical Neuroimmunology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, explore the topic of peripheral neuropathy.
In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Jorge Torres-Mora, M.D., assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, to discuss the importance of integrating molecular information into your anatomic pathology practice.
Due to the Memorial Day holiday (recognized on Monday, May 30), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, please plan ahead.
For a young child diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, an unexpected turn of events led by results of a Mayo Clinic Laboratories test freed him and his family from the bonds of frequent medical visits and expensive treatment, and opened the door to a life unencumbered by illness.
In this month's "Hot Topic," Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will be discussing laboratory utilization management, specifically for diagnostic testing for tick-borne diseases.
This list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of April.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is leading an evolution in autoimmune neurology diagnosis. To better reflect this testing evolution, and to reduce confusion and improve utilization for our clients, effective April 28, we are renaming our phenotype-specific evaluations.
Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Curt Hanson, M.D., professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, a hematopathology consultant at Mayo Clinic, and executive vice president and chief medical officer for Mayo Collaborative Services, to celebrate Lab Week 2022 and discuss why it’s important to look at our past when planning for the future.
Joel Cayou’s goal as a supervisor in Specimen Handling is to support his staff wherever he can in the vital work they do to keep Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ operations running efficiently.
Mayo Clinic recently announced plans to invest in an expansion project to enhance laboratory medicine. The expansion project will support Mayo Clinic Laboratories' goal to provide diagnostics to Mayo Clinic patients throughout the nation and abroad. Health care teams around the world will have access to laboratory testing through Mayo Clinic Laboratories' Test Catalog, and Mayo Clinic patients will have access to testing via their Mayo Clinic health care providers.
In this test specific episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Melissa Snyder, Ph.D., explains how IBDP2, when used after first-line testing has failed, can distinguish between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ manager of Outreach and Network Support, Jane Hermansen, to celebrate laboratory successes from the past and look toward the future.
The considerations physicians must weigh when evaluating suspected neuropathy patients with special emphasis put on small-fiber neuropathy and the most appropriate laboratory testing related to that phenotype.