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Digitally colorized transmission electron microscopic image of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus particles (in gold), grown in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (in green).

Ryan Nelson, PharmD, ARUP medical director of Precision Medicine, will moderate a session about standards for pharmacogenetic testing at the Standardizing Laboratory Practices in Pharmacogenomics (STRIPE) Annual Meeting and Consensus Workshop in October.

A new test that ARUP offers for preeclampsia risk measures the ratio between two angiogenic factors (sFlt-1 and PlGF) that are produced by the placenta and are involved in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia.

Bird flu is spreading from wild birds to poultry and dairy cows in the United States and in some rare instances has infected humans.

Named for the white splotch on the back of females, the lone star tick is moving into new geographical areas, bringing infectious diseases, and causing allergies to red meat.

Fragile X syndrome is a common X-linked genetic condition and the most common heritable form of intellectual disability.