Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD, and Noriko Kusukawa, PhD, who is Wittwer’s wife, are retiring from ARUP Laboratories to move to Maine, where they are building a home with a fully equipped molecular laboratory.
Just 1% of residents in four Utah counties have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, a prevalence rate below that of many other communities in the U.S., according to preliminary results of the Utah HERO project.
Lauren Pearson, DO, MPH, is the new CLIA laboratory director for ARUP at University of Utah Health and at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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ARUP invites medical professionals and others to participate in a free webinar that features lab industry leaders discussing how COVID-19-related changes may permanently affect the industry.
ARUP Laboratories and technology company Techcyte published a study in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology on their AI-augmented ova-and-parasite detection tool.
ARUP is collaborating with the UDOH Public Health Laboratory and Ginkgo Bioworks to study the genetics of the COVID-19 virus in Utah and analyze how the molecular makeup of the virus is evolving.
ARUP and Techcyte, a leading developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-based image analysis solutions, published a study on their groundbreaking AI-augmented ova and parasite detection tool.
Utahns tested for COVID-19 at the U Redwood Health Center are being asked to volunteer for a study to evaluate whether saliva and other specimen types can be effectively used to test for the disease.
When COVID-19 Testing Supply Shortages Hit, This Behind-the-Scenes Lab Improvised and Innovated Fast
When the COVID-19 pandemic was gaining traction in the U.S., few knew what a lab testing collection kit included or what reagents were—until headlines started shouting about shortages of these items.
Utah Rep. Ben McAdams (D) donated plasma to a study to determine whether convalescent plasma from those who have recovered from COVID-19 is a safe, effective treatment for patients with the disease.
ARUP Laboratories announced that it is making a second COVID-19 IgG antibody test available nationwide.
Medical laboratory scientists who work in hospital labs and in national reference laboratories such as ARUP are the inconspicuous, less visible participants in helping to diagnose patients.