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making lab test changes on computer

February 18, 2018

Seemingly Small IT Improvements Notably Increase Clients’ Awareness of Test Changes

To help clients stay on top of changes reported in the Hotline, several ARUP in-house teams collaborated to create a new Hotline History field.

Image of Baby Walking to illustrate NIPT test

February 8, 2018

Prenatal Screening and NIPT: Ratcheting Up the Sensitivity

The mother decided—against her earlier leaning—to have a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for the top three most common genetic abnormalities: Down syndrome (also called trisomy 21), trisomy 18, and trisomy 13. NIPT tests DNA in maternal blood to screen for those three anomalies.

Histotechnologist Meghan Maughan

January 25, 2018

Lab Jobs and Histotechnology: How Switching Careers Helped One Technologist

She didn’t feel math-y to start. Meghan Maughan, now an ARUP histotechnologist, liked science in high school and college, but felt her math skills held her back from science careers.

Biocomputing NGS Pipeline called Pipey and its team

January 18, 2018

Stronger, Faster, Smarter: ARUP’s New NGS Pipeline and Analytical Platform

Pipey is ARUP’s new bioinformatics pipeline and cloud-based computer infrastructure for next generation sequencing (NGS) testing.

Caribbean cone snails whose venom helped form a compound that could be used to treat chronic pain

December 6, 2017

Non-Opioid Pain Management: Searching for Natural Compounds to Replace Opioids (Q&A)

The Department of Defense awarded a $10 million grant to be paid over four years to a multi-disciplinary team, some of whom worked on a University of Utah Health study published in February 2017. ARUP is a partner to the University of Utah, and has an extensive pain management panel. Photo by My Huynh.

Genetic Counseling Students at ARUP

November 28, 2017

Genetic Counseling Students at ARUP: Watch Rookies Learn from the Pros

ARUP has been recognizing the need for well-qualified genetic counselors by hosting a three-week course for students in UUGPGC, where some of ARUP’s genetic counselors are faculty members.

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