"Don't Blot Out Your Results: The Value of Topnotch Science and Quality" There has been a notable uptick in Warning Letters being issued to universities from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). An example of this trend occurred when...
Alturas Analytics is a proud sponsor of this upcoming webinar by PCSIG, hosted by The Evidence Base. How can a drop of blood be used for elemental analysis? Clinical dosage of toxic and essential elements in blood is well...
Finger-prick sampling emerges as an attractive tool for therapeutic drug monitoring and associated diagnostics during follow-up in different patient populations. Kidney transplant recipients constitute a group with likely valuable gain...
Dried blood microsampling, originating in the newborn screening field, and also currently routinely applied in preclinical (animal) studies in the pharmaceutical industry, is increasingly receiving attention in the field of clinical...
About the Presenter With over 20 years in Quality Assurance, David Schumacher, RQAP-GLP since 2004, oversees the Alturas Analytics Quality Assurance Program. David is an experienced Quality Assurance Professional in FDA...
When developing a quantitative LC-MS/MS method, ideally the standard curve and quality controls should be prepared in a matrix as similar as possible to the study samples to limit the potential for dissimilar matrix components...
Determination of protein binding levels and free circulating drug in biological systems is important in establishing pharmacokinetic activity. The portion of drug that binds to protein within the body is rendered inactive and...
Microsampling enables increased sampling frequency for animal and human studies and decreases barriers to clinical trial enrollment. These benefits lead to larger and more inclusive datasets, but bioanalysis of microsamples...
Investigators have shown that one enantiomer of hydroxyglutarate (D-2-HG) is abnormally accumulated in a variety of human cancers, such as glioblastoma, acute myeloid leukemia and cholangiocarcinoma. The isocitrate...