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	February 1, 2021	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Marks First Phase of ARUP’s Expansion into a New State-of-the-Art Facility ARUP Laboratories marked an important milestone on February 1 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony broadcast via Facebook Live to celebrate the first-phase opening of its new 220,000-square-foot building. Upon its completion later this spring, the new building will add 140,000 square feet to ARUP’s laboratory operations, including 35,000 square feet for specimen processing and approximately 1.4 miles of
	January 26, 2021	ARUP Laboratories Made Prolific Contributions to the Advancement of Laboratory Medicine Last Year ARUP Laboratories’ medical directors were involved in the publication of more than 115 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals in 2020. A list of these 2020 articles, along with publications lists dating back to 2000, is now available here.
	January 19, 2021	ARUP Sequencing Specimens Positive for SARS-CoV-2 to Detect the UK Variant of the Virus ARUP Laboratories announced that it is sequencing variants of SARS-CoV-2 in specimens positive for COVID-19 to enable detection of the more contagious “United Kingdom (UK) variant” of the virus.
“There is a lot of support in the lab for people coming in new, and if one lab doesn’t seem like a good fit for you, then there are still so many other labs to consider,” Brook Berger tells new hires.	January 15, 2021	Laboratory Career Spotlight: A Laboratorian’s Path to Success, from Technician to Supervisor The career growth spotlight series shows the myriad career paths possible at ARUP, inside and outside more than 65 laboratories and in more than 180 departments.
	January 13, 2021	ARUP’s COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Research Moves Forward in Four Clinical Trials ARUP and University of Utah Health continue to research the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) in four multicenter randomized clinical trials.
Stew and Becky Tribe hold their newborn son, Woodward, who was the first baby in Utah to be diagnosed with GAMT deficiency through Utah’s newborn test panel. Utah is one of only three states that include this screening for newborns.	January 11, 2021	ARUP-Developed Newborn Test Dramatically Changes Baby’s Life—But It Almost Didn’t Happen Utah added screening for GAMT deficiency to its NBS panel in 2015, becoming the first state to do so. It is now one of only three states to screen for the condition.