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Dried Blood Spot Testing – Part 3

Blog | April 2023

Special edition: Interview with DBS extraction expert Donald H. Chace, PhD In this special instalment of our dried blood spo […]

Publication Highlight: Swedish Study Finds That Volumetric Dried Blood Spot Testing Using Capitainer®B Has Promise in Therapeutic Monitoring of Lithium

Blog | March 2023

A recent study carried out in Sweden found that volumetric dried blood spot testing holds promise for lithium monitoring dur […]

New self-sampling device expands the possibilities for large-volume blood sampling

Blog | January 2023

Dried blood spot (DBS) testing is a microsampling method based on dried spots of whole blood. The technique is widely used i […]

Best Practice Tips For Capillary Blood Sampling

Blog | December 2022

Besides the increased patient comfort that may come with capillary testing, capillary blood samples are often easier to obta […]

An Introduction to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Possibilities With DBS

Blog | November 2022

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a clinical practice of measuring the concentration of a specific drug(s) in an individu […]

Publication Highlight: Major UK Study Finds That Capitainer Is Superior for PKU Monitoring Compared to Conventional DBS and Other Volumetric Microsampling Devices

Blog | October 2022

A recent study carried out in the UK compared three commercially available volumetric blood collection devices with conventi […]

Dried Blood Spot Testing – Part 2

Blog | September 2022

Welcome back to our series about dried blood spot (DBS) testing. In Part 1, we provided an overview of what DBS is, how it i […]

Dried Blood Spot Testing – Part 1

Blog | July 2022

Welcome to our blog series about dried blood spot (DBS) testing, a microsampling method that is widely used to analyse molec […]

Dried Blood Spot Microsampling in Screening and Monitoring of PKU

Blog | June 2022

Since the 1960s, the use of dried blood spot (DBS) technology for newborn screening (NBS) and monitoring of patients with in […]