Education

While recently touring Salt Lake City-based ARUP Laboratories, Utah Congressman Chris Stewart witnessed one of the country’s largest national reference laboratories in action.

In a medical laboratory, when specimens from different patients are prepared for analysis on a 96-well collection plate, it is critical that there is absolutely no cross-contamination.

More than 700 students (mostly freshmen) earned ARUP scholarships based on outstanding academic performance. It allowed the U to court some of the brightest in the state.

The go-to-book for body fluids, Kjeldsberg’s Body Fluid Analysis (4th edition) was recently updated and released by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Press (ASCP).

American College of Medical Genetics annual meeting participants toured ARUP’s Specimen Receiving—where test tubes and specimens spin, chug, slide, and ride their way along automated equipment.