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DBS samples should be dried at room temperature and then stored frozen, ideally at -80°C, until analysis. While immediate cooling is not required at the moment of collection, cold storage is necessary to preserve lipid integrity prior to analysis.

DBS sampling requires only a finger prick, with no phlebotomy and no anticoagulants. This makes it ideal for decentralised clinical trials, longitudinal studies with frequent sampling, and large-cohort research where participant burden and logistics need to be minimised.

Yes. Dried blood spots are a validated matrix for quantitative lipidomics. Lipotype’s proprietary sample preparation method is specifically developed and validated for DBS, delivering the same accurate quantification in pmol and mol% as plasma-based lipidomics.

Lipotype’s DBS Lipid Panel quantifies 24 lipid classes from a single dried blood spot, compared to 16 from plasma. This includes cardiolipins, phosphatidylserines, and phosphatidylglycerols and other lipid classes that are not accessible from plasma samples.

Dried blood spot (DBS) lipidomics is the quantitative analysis of lipids from a small blood sample collected via finger prick onto a filter card. Unlike plasma lipidomics, DBS captures the full whole-blood lipidome, including lipid classes from blood cell membranes and mitochondria.