Expanding Access to Biomarker Research Using Dried Blood Spots from Dr. Thomas McDade

In this commentary published in the American Journal of Human Biology, Dr. Thomas McDade reflects on the transformative potential of dried blood spot (DBS) sampling over the past decade.

Salivary Cortisol, Inflammation, and HbA1c in Children with Type 1 Diabetes

The purpose of this quantitative study was to consider factors that may negatively impact glycemic levels in Black and White children 8-12 years old with a diagnosis of...

In Memoriam: Clarence “Clancy” Blair, MPH, PhD

Clancy and Doug Granger (Salimetrics founder) were longtime colleagues, collaborators, and very much enjoyed each other's friendship. He will be missed by us, Doug, and by many many others....

Feasibility of Remote Dried Blood Spot Collection for Inflammatory Markers Using Lancets

Human metabolism is complex and dynamic, and is impacted by genetics, diet, health, and countless inputs from the environment. Beyond the genetics shared by family members, cohabitation leads to shared microbial and environmental exposures. Furthermore, metabolism is affected by factors such as...

Acute salivary cortisol response in children with ADHD during psychosocial intervention with...

Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) participated in a randomized clinical trial comparing animal-assisted intervention (AAI) to psychosocial treatment as usual (TAU). This brief report describes effects of AAI on...

Exploring Differences in Children’s Stress Physiology Using a Person-Centered Approach

Our understanding of associations between family-level risk factors and children's stress physiology is largely derived from studies that apply "mean-based" rather than...

Salivary Osteocalcin and its association to psychiatric disorders

Osteocalcin is a bone-derived hormone implicated in the acute stress response and recently linked to adult depression. Yet it is unclear whether osteocalcin is a biomarker of other forms of...

Salivary and serum inflammatory markers relate to worse self rated health

 Understanding the biological processes underlying poor self-rated health (SRH) can inform prevention efforts. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of using self-reported measures and self-collected biospecimens, such as saliva, to understand...

Understanding Salivary C-Reactive Protein as a Biomarker in Military Personnel

C-reactive protein is a systemic inflammatory biomarker that is positively associated with the development of disease. Salivary C-reactive protein (sCRP) has previously been reported to have a diurnal rhythm with higher levels upon...

Exploring Salivary Metabolomes in Child-Caregiver Dyads: Insights from the Family Life Project

Human metabolism is complex, and is impacted by genetics, cohabitation, diet, health, and environmental inputs. As such, we applied untargeted LC-MS metabolomics to 1425 saliva samples from a diverse group of...

Assessing Maternal Control Strategies Through Infant-Mother Salivary Cortisol Levels

Maternal control strategy refers to a mother's practices used to impel, inhibit, guide, or shape their children's behaviors during mother-child interaction. The present study examined control strategies used by Chinese urban mothers and how they associated with...

Evaluating Salivary Uric Acid and Stress Hormones Using the Trier Social Stress Test

Acute physiological responses to psychosocial stressors are a potential pathway underlying racial disparities in stress-related illnesses. Uric acid (UA) is a potent antioxidant that has been linked to disparities in stress-related illnesses, and recent research has shown that UA is...

Fathers’ Alexithymia and Salivary Testosterone Influence Toddlers’ Prosocial Beh...

The development of prosocial skills in children is a key predictor of long-term social, cognitive, and emotional functioning. However, the role of fathers' psychological characteristics in ...

Assessment of the Relationship Between Behavioral and Physiological Parameters and the Emoti...

A complete assessment of animal welfare requires not just an understanding of negative emotional states, such as fear and anxiety, but also of positive states, such as...

Inflammageing and the Interplay of Cytokines, Chemokines, and Growth Factors for Targeted In...

Most older individuals develop inflammageing, a condition characterized by elevated levels of blood inflammatory markers that carries high susceptibility to chronic morbidity...