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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 […]

Quantitative Serology Made Possible With Capitainer®qDBS

Blog | May 2022

Dried blood spot testing is a microsampling method that has been utilised for qualitative or semi-quantitative analysis of h […]

Global CRO Altasciences Evaluates Capitainer®qDBS Microsampling

Blog | April 2022

Conventional dried blood spot testing (DBS) is a microsampling method that is widely used for qualitative or semi-quantitati […]

A New Gold Standard in PEth Testing

Blog | March 2022

Phosphatidylethanol, mostly referred to as PEth, is a phospholipid biomarker of long-term alcohol consumption. PEth exists n […]

Sampling quantitative blood at home? Yes it is possible!

Blog | January 2022

Self-sampling has gained significant interest over the past decade, accelerated in recent years by the Covid-19 pandemic. Cl […]