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Leaving Behind More than Just A Bite—Tickborne Diseases

New Editorial Board Helps Shape the Future of ARUP Consult

ARUP Consult Editorial Board members include (left to right): Fred Strathmann, Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Brian Jackson, Bo Hong, Alan Brown, and Reha Toydemir.

Clients place high value on the expertise University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine faculty members provide ARUP Laboratories in their role as medical directors for the company.

Genetic Test Identifies Rarer Forms of Pulmonary Hypertension, Improving Treatment, Deterring Need for Biopsy

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.