After 40 years of development, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) can
hardly be considered as a novel technique anymore. ICP-MS has become the reference …

Metabolomics is a discipline aiming to characterize the presence of metabolites in biological
matrices under specific conditions. In recent years, metabolomics has increasingly been …

Volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) is a recent microsampling technique used to
obtain dried specimens of blood and other biological matrices for application to a plethora of …

Sample preparation is considered as the bottleneck step in bioanalysis because each
biological matrix has its own unique challenges and complexity. Competent sample …

Recent advancements in the sensitivity of chemical instrumentation have led to increased
interest in the use of microsamples for translational and biomedical research. Paper …

Nowadays the practice of therapeutic drug monitoring, consisting in the measurement of
drugs concentrations in biological matrices in order to guide possible posological …

With the development of highly sensitive bioanalytical techniques, the volume of samples
necessary for accurate analysis has reduced. Microsampling, the process of obtaining small …

Human Biomonitoring (HB), the process for determining whether and to what extent
chemical substances penetrated our bodies, serves as a useful tool to quantify human …

The activities of modern society are centered on an obsessive relationship with time, where
we put emphasis on speed. Therefore, turnaround times (also response times or waiting …

Blood serves as the primary global biological matrix for health surveillance, disease
diagnosis, and response to drug treatment, holding significant promise for personalized …