ARUP Medical Director Kristin Hunt Karner sits at a desk in a laboratory.

February 12, 2019

NGS Panels: How Do They Help in Diagnosing Myeloid Neoplasms?

Kristin Hunt Karner, MD, brings her expertise to ARUP diagnostics every day. She is a medical director for two ARUP departments,

Medical technologist Lisa Meek at work

January 31, 2019

The Dangers of Being Unique: What Makes Blood Rare?

The laboratorians in the ARUP Immunohematology Reference Laboratory spend their days determining the more complex blood types of patients.

Trace minerals including iron shown as elemental symbols under a microscope

January 8, 2019

New ARUP Resource Offers Guidance on Lab Testing for Element Toxicity or Deficiency

A comprehensive new Trace and Toxic Elements resource available free to the public at arupconsult.com offers expert

Carrier box for nucleic acid and tissue specimens

October 9, 2018

[VIDEO] Safe Specimens, Six Sigma, A Very Safe Box: Here’s How to Use It

ARUP has experienced zero losses of specimens—including nucleic acid from DNA—sent in the laboratory’s specially designed carrier,

 ARUP medical director Dr. Marc Couturier

September 20, 2018

Syphilis Cases: Easily Treated, But Rising Every Year Since 2000, says CDC

Syphilis is highly treatable in its primary and secondary stages, but congenital syphilis (babies born with the

ARUP medical director Gwen McMillin, PhD, in her office

September 11, 2018

Putting the Precision in Medicine: Imatinib First in a Series of Cancer-Drug TDM ARUP Plans

Dr. Gwen McMillin says ARUP's new therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for imatinib has definite patient