Serology

3 October 2023

Capitainer’s products cornerstone of COVID-19 study by the Swedish Public Health Agency, published in The Lancet

Stockholm, October 3rd 2023. An increased number of vaccine doses, administrated more frequently, reduces the mortality of COVID-19 in residents...

2 May 2023

In a retrospective cohort study, researchers in Umeå University, Karolinska Institute and Xerum AB in Sweden found that home sampling...

1 September 2022

Welcome back to our series about dried blood spot (DBS) testing. In Part 1, we provided an overview of what...

19 May 2022

On 19th of May 2022, Attana announced an updated CE IVD marking for its AVATM SARS-CoV-2 IgG Immunoassay kit. This now...

A randomised study of nurse collected venous blood and self-collected dried blood spots for the assessment of cardiovascular risk factors in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel August 10, 2023
Introduction Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK, cardiovascular disease is patterned by several ...... by dried blood spot (DBS) sampling, which is a low resource-demanding alternative to venous blood draws, and as less invasive, may be ...
Finger Prick, Venous Blood Can Identify Key Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers August 4, 2023
HealthDay News — Finger prick or venous blood collection can identify key Alzheimer disease-related biomarkers, according to a study ...... found that DBS(capillary) GFAP and NfL levels were associated with their counterparts in EDTA plasma. Significant associations were ...
Clinical performance of volumetric finger-prick sampling for the monitoring of tacrolimus, creatinine and hemoglobin in kidney transplant recipients August 4, 2023
... https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.15870 ...... by healthcare professionals versus self-sampling, and differences between the two devices. We compared finger-prick and venous ...