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Should We Screen for Prostate Cancer?

Cancer screening is like fencing in an animal: the goal is to catch the cancer/animal in order to control it. The complicating factor is that cancers turn out to be highly variable in their behavior. Imagine the slow growing ones as turtles. Fencing in a turtle will create the illusion that you’ve controlled it (“the cancer is cured!”), but in fact that turtle was never going to go anywhere in the first place.

ARUP Laboratories Announces New CEO

We Will Build It: A Look inside ARUP’s In-House Machine Shop

ARUP’s machine shop staff. From left to right: Dan Valdez, Shane Spensko, and Chance Spensko.

Deep in the heart of ARUP’s central facility is a room you won’t find in most labs. The technicians wear heavy leather aprons rather than lab coats; instead of specimen samples the shelves are filled with bars of steel; and the hum of high-tech mills and lathes cutting raw material fills the air.

The Spring Olympics? ARUP Seizes a Gold and Bronze in National Pipetting Challenge

The top five, highest scoring, participants in the national 2016 Pipetting Challenge include Elaine Yang (0.09%), Laurie Henderson (0.06), Zachary Wilkey (0.10%), Samantha Beyer (0.07%), and (not pictured) Sonia La’ulu (0.09%).

Avoiding Financial Waste: UM Strategies in the Pre- and Post-Analytic Stages

Preventing Childhood Deaths from Infectious Diseases: ARUP Scientist Awarded Gates Foundation Grant