Publications

Publications of our unique technology

There are an ever growing range of publications demonstrating the applications and benefits of our unique technology. Read them below or contact us directly for more information.

Exploration of immune phenotypes in self-sampling citizens

Dahl, Leo et al.

iScience, Volume 29, Issue 2, 114611 (2026).

Ambient temperature exposure on inflammatory blood proteins—A longitudinal self-sampling survey in young Swedish adults

Yu, Zhebin et al.

iScience, Volume 29, Issue 1, 114383 (2026).

A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Huber, H., Montoliu-Gaya, L., Brum, W.S. et al. A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

Nat Med (2026).

Performance properties of filter-paper used in blood spot collection devices for quantitation of phenylalanine

Rodham, A., von Ruhland, C., Carling, R., & Moat, S. J. (2025).

Bioanalysis, 1–9.

Multiomics Analysis of Dried Plasma Spots Using Stable Isotope Internal Standards for Biomarker Discovery

Wenqian, Li, John R. Koethe, Curtis L. Gabriel, Heidi J. Silver, and Timothy J. Garrett

Analytical Chemistry Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c01713

Detection of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids and Steroid Esters—Comparing Dried Blood Spots Collection Devices and Urine Sample

Suominen, T., von Walden, J., Harju, L. et al.

Drug Testing and Analysis (2025): 1–10

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Everolimus Using Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling and Quantitative Dried Blood Spot Methods with LC-MS/MS in Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: An Analytical and Clinical Comparative Study

Kocur, A., Olkowski, B., Moczulski, M., Miszewska-Szyszkowska, D. et al.

Molecules. 2025 Jul 26;30(15):3139

Detection of a Single Microdose of Testosterone and Recombinant EPO in Healthy Volunteers

Heiland, C., Hopcraft, O., Johanson, M. et al.

Drug Testing and Analysis (2025): 1–8

The comparison of two volumetric microsampling devices (qDBS and VAMS) for determining ganciclovir levels in capillary blood using the LC-MS/MS technique in pediatric renal transplant recipients

Kocur, A., Moczulski,, M., Czajkowska, A. et al.

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Volume 212, 1 September 2025, 107200

Quantitative Assessment of a Novel Device Designed for Patient-centric Sampling of Dried Plasma Using Targeted Proteomics

Hober, A., Henricsson, M., Ruckh, T. et. al.

Analytical Chemistry (2025) 97 (25), 12953-12962

Assessment and cross-validation of calibration transferability between dried blood spot sampling devices for accurate quantification of phosphatidylethanol

Hose, J., Juebner, M., Thevis, M. et al.

Anal Bioanal Chem (2025)

Multiplex quantification of endocrine proteins in volumetric dried blood spots

Stauch, W., Olausson, J., Bendes, A. et al.

Clinical Proteomics volume 22, Article number: 18 (2025)

Home-sampling of B cells using quantitative dried blood spots to enable tailored therapeutic re-dosing of anti-CD20 therapies

Tallantyre EC, Jacob E, Davies L, et al.

Multiple Sclerosis Journal 2025;0(0)

Quantitative dried blood spot microsampling for therapeutic drug monitoring of -antiseizure medications by design of experiment and UHPLC-MS/MS

Cancellerini C., Caravelli A. et al.

Talanta, Volume 293, 2025.

Dried blood spot microsampling: A semi-quantitative 4D-lipidomics approach using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography – high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC – HRMS).

Jayden Lee Roberts, Monique J. Ryan, et al.

Talanta, Volume 287, 2025.

Imatinib and norimatinib therapeutic monitoring using dried blood spots: Analytical and clinical validation, and performance comparison of volumetric collection devices.

Marco Orleni, Sara Gagno, et al.

Journal of Chromatography B, Volume 1255, 2025.

Simple steps to achieve harmonisation and standardisation of dried blood spot phenylalanine measurements and facilitate consistent management of patients with phenylketonuria.

Carling, Rachel S., Barclay, Zoe, et al.

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 2025.

Rapid determination of phenylalanine and tyrosine in volumetrically collected dried blood spots using fully automated processing and analysis by capillary electrophoresis.

Noemí Aranda-Merino, Miloš Dvořák, Pavel Kubáň

Talanta, Volume 284, 2025.

Pre-analytic assessment of dried blood and dried plasma spots: integration in mass spectrometry–based metabolomics and lipidomics workflow.

Bossi, E., Serrao, S., Reveglia, P, et al

Anal Bioanal Chem (2025)

The detection of GRN mutation carriers by progranulin blood protein levels from finger-stick collection

Huber H, Cantoni V, Altomare D, et al.

Alzheimer’s Dement. 2024; 1-6.

Quantitative determination by UHPLC-MS/MS of 18 common drugs of abuse and metabolites, including THC and OH-THC, in volumetric dried blood spots: a sustainable method with minimally invasive sampling.

Ververi C, Gentile C, Massano M, Salomone A, Vincenti M.

Journal of Chromatography B, Volume 1247, 2024.

Development and validation of the UHPLC-MS/MS method for the quantitative determination of 25 PFAS in dried blood spots.

Galletto, M., Ververi, C., Massano, M. et al.

Anal Bioanal Chem (2024).

Next generation microsampling towards sustainable forensic analysis: Volumetric DBS for cocaine and metabolites

Palano, S., Turoňova, D., Protti, M., Kujovská Krčmová, L., Sardella, R., Mladěnka, P., Mandrioli, R., Girotti, S., & Mercolini, L. (2024).

Microchemical Journal, 203, 110937.

Volumetric dried blood spots for determination of phosphatidylethanol: Validation of a liquid chromatography tandem masspectrometry method and clinical application.

Beck O, Barroso M, Hermansson S, et al.

Drug Test Anal. 2024; 1–7.

Proteome profiling of home-sampled dried blood spots reveals proteins of SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Fredolini C, Dodig-Crnković T, Bendes A, Dahl L, Dale M, Albrecht V, Mattsson C, Thomas CE, Torinsson Naluai Å, Gisslen M, Beck O, Roxhed N, Schwenk JM.

Commun Med (Lond). 2024 Apr 2;4(1):55.

A multicomponent LC-MS/MS method for drugs of abuse testing using volumetric DBS and a clinical evaluation by comparison with urine.

Guterstam J, Tavic C, Barosso M, Beck O.

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 243, 2024

Detection of 26 Drugs of Abuse and Metabolites in Quantitative Dried Blood Spots by Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry.

Meikopoulos T, Gika H, Theodoridis G, Begou O.

Molecules. 2024; 29(5):975.

Evaluation of a single Eporatio® micro-dose in urine and dried blood spots

Heiland CE, Lehtihet M, Börjesson A, Ekström L.

Drug Test Anal. 2024; 1-4.

Development and validation of a UPLC-PDA method for quantifying ceftazidime in dried blood spots

Lv J, Wu Q, Li S, Yi H, Xie F.

J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2024 Feb 15.

Analysis of HbA1c using microfluidic card (Capitainer qDBS card) as a pre-step before determination of the HbA1c value with an immunological method

Niclas Rollborn, Anders Larsson & Kim Kultima.

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 2024.

Patient-Centric Quantitative Microsampling for Accurate Determination of Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio (UACR) in a Clinical Setting

Löfgren, Lars et al.

The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, December, 2023.

Repurposing dried blood spot (DBS) device technology to examine bile acid profiles in human dried fecal spot (DFS) samples

Melinda A. Engevik et al.

Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2023 Nov 28.

Investigation of the relationship between phenylalanine in venous plasma and capillary blood using volumetric blood collection devices

Carling, Rachel S. et al.

JIMD Reports. 2023; 1–9.

SARS-CoV-2-related mortality decrease in nursing home residents given multiple COVID-19 boosters

Blom, Kim et al.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 23, Issue 10, e393 – e394.

Quantitation of phenylalanine and tyrosine from dried Blood/Plasma spots with impregnated stable isotope internal standards (SIIS) by FIA-SRM

Wenqian Li, Donald H. Chace, Timothy J. Garrett.

Clinica Chimica Acta, Volume 549, 2023.

Clinical performance of volumetric finger-prick sampling for the monitoring of tacrolimus, creatinine and hemoglobin in kidney transplant recipients.

Vethe, NT, Åsberg, A, Andersen, AM, Skauby, RH, Bergan, S, Midtvedt, K.

Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2023.

At-home sampling to meet geographical challenges for serological assessment of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in a rural region of northern Sweden, March to May 2021: a retrospective cohort study

Byström, Julia Wigren et. al.

Eurosurveillance, 28, 2200432 (2023).

Ceramides biomarkers determination in quantitative dried blood spots by UHPLC-MS/MS

Thomas Meikopoulos, Olga Begou, Georgios Theodoridis, Helen Gika,

Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 1255, 2023.

Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Globotriaosylsphingosine and Its Analogues in Dried Blood Spots

Boutin, M.; Lavoie, P.; Beaudon, M.; Kabala Ntumba, G.; Bichet, D.G.; Maranda, B.; Auray-Blais, C.

Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 3223.

Determination of lithium concentration in capillary blood using volumetric dried blood spots

Fredrik Wikström, Carl Olsson, Bonita Palm, Niclas Roxhed, Lena Backlund, Martin Schalling, Olof Beck.

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 227, 2023.

Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressants and creatinine from a single dried blood spot using the Capitainer® qDBS device

Sigrid Deprez, Katleen Van Uytfanghe, Christophe P. Stove.

Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 1242, 2023.

A Validated UHPLC-MS/MS Method to Quantify Eight Antibiotics in Quantitative Dried Blood Spots in Support of Pharmacokinetic Studies in Neonates

Liu, Q.; Liu, L.; Yuan, Y.; Xie, F.

Antibiotics 2023, 12, 199.

Evaluation of volumetric blood collection devices for the measurement of phenylalanine and tyrosine to monitor patients with phenylketonuria

Rachel S. Carling, Erin C. Emmett, Stuart J. Moat.

Clinica Chimica Acta, Volume 535, 2022, Pages 157-166.

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Sweden, April 26 to May 9, 2021

Beser, J., Galanis, I., Enkirch, T. et al.

Sci Rep 12, 10816 (2022).

Use of Quantitative Dried Blood Spots to Evaluate the Post-Vaccination Level of Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Marchand, A.; Roulland, I.; Semence, F.; Beck, O.; Ericsson, M.

Life 2021, 11, 1125.

Determination of Cu in blood via direct analysis of dried blood spots using high-resolution continuum source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

MCarmen Garcia Poyo, Christophe PECHEYRAN, Luis Rello, Elena Garcia Gonzalez, Sharay Alonso Rodríguez, Flavio Venancio Nakadi, Maite Aramendía and Martin Resano.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2021.

Multianalyte serology in home-sampled blood enables an unbiased assessment of the immune response against SARS-CoV-2

Niclas Roxhed, Annika Bendes, Matilda Dale, Cecilia Mattsson, Leo Hanke, Tea Dodig-Crnković, Murray Christian, Birthe Meineke, Simon Elsässer, Juni Andréll, Sebastian Havervall, Charlotte Thålin, Carina Eklund, Joakim Dillner, Olof Beck, Cecilia E. Thomas, Gerald McInerney, Mun-Gwan Hong, Ben Murrell, Claudia Fredolini & Jochen M. Schwenk.

Nat Commun 12, 3695 (2021).

Measurement of the alcohol biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth) in dried blood spots and venous blood—importance of inhibition of post-sampling formation from ethanol

Olof Beck, Maria Mellring, Christian Löwbeer, Sabina Seferaj & Anders Helander.

Anal Bioanal Chem (2021).

Adaptation of Elecsys® anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 immunoassay to dried blood spots: proof of concept

Alexandre Marchand , Ingrid Roulland, Florian Semence & Magnus Ericsson.

BIOANALYSISVOL. 13, NO. 3m 2021.

A simple and direct atomic absorption spectrometry method for the direct determination of Hg in dried blood spots and dried urine spots prepared using various microsampling devices

Flávio V. Nakadi, Raúl Garde, Márcia A. M. S. da Veiga, Julio Crucesc and Martín Resano.

Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020,35, 136-144.

Evaluation of the Capitainer‑B Microfluidic Device as a NewHematocrit-Independent Alternative for Dried Blood Spot Collection

Sofie Velghe and Christophe P. Stove.

Anal Chem. 2018 Nov 6;90(21):12893-12899.

Investigation of the effect of blood hematocrit and lipid content on the blood volume deposited by a disposable dried blood spot collection device

N. Spooner, A. Olatunji, K. Webbley.

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 149 (2018) 419–424.

Study of measurement of the alcohol biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth)in dried blood spot (DBS) samples and application of a volumetric DBSdevice

Olof Beck, Naama Kenan Modén, Sabina Seferaj, Gabriel Lenk, Anders Helander.

Clin Chim Acta. 2018 Apr; 479:38-42.