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Salivary Cotinine Biomarkers Reveal How Vaping Behavior Influences Nicotine Exposure
Feasibility assessment of a pharmaco-kinetic behavior based yield model of salivary cotinine among tobacco users Hensel, E. C., & Robinson, R. J., (2025) Toxicology Reports Summary Highlight: This article highlights the feasibility of using a pharmacokinetic behavior-based yield (PkBBY) model to estimate nicotine exposure from e-cigarette use by linking puffing behavior with salivary cotinine levels, [...]
How Is Salivary Bioscience Shaping High-Impact Research?
Drop Date: January 2026 If 2000 marked the year salivary bioscience entered its adolescence, then 2025 may well be remembered as the year it achieved adulthood. Today, the field has matured, and reviewers across disciplines recognize the assessment of salivary biomarkers as rigorous, reliable, and methodologically robust tools for answering complex research questions related to [...]
Salivary Biomarkers of Physiological Regulation in Autistic Youth During Therapeutic Horseback Riding
“Salimetrics, LLC has been a key partner in our large multi-site randomized trial funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HD097693, aimed at broadening the growing evidence that therapeutic horseback riding (THR) promotes positive outcomes for autistic youth. Our [...]
Salimetrics Launches ‘Tools for Your Toolbox’ to Improve Research Study Management
November 24, 2025 - Carlsbad, CA Building on the Salimetrics CoreLab+ research testing platform, Salimetrics announces the launch of its valuable organization, logistics, and statistical data tools to help investigators improve the efficiency of saliva and dried blood spot biomarker-based studies. With expanded resources designed for early-stage research planning, Salimetrics is increasing support for investigators [...]
Salivary Inflammatory–Cortisol Coordination and Its Affective Distress in Pregnancy
Coordination of inflammatory and adrenocortical stress response during pregnancy and variation by mental health Heidemarie K. Laurent, Sherryl H. Goodman, Douglas A. Granger, Penina M. Backer Research Highlights: Well-regulated coordination of a multi-system stress response is particularly consequential for intergenerational health during pregnancy, when maternal stress systems typically adapt to protect the fetus. However, little [...]
Understanding Best Practices to Address Saliva Cell Heterogeneity in Pediatric Epigenetic Research
“Our findings improve the interpretability and rigor of epigenetic analyses using pediatric saliva.” - Meingold Chan, PhD Not all saliva samples are equal: The role of cellular heterogeneity in DNA methylation and epigenetic age analyses with biological and psychosocial factors Meingold H. Chan, Mandy Meijer, Sarah M. Merrill, Maggie P.Y. Fu, David Lin, Julia L. [...]
Salivary DHEA-S, Estradiol, and Testosterone Across Pubertal Stages in Autistic girls
Pubertal development is complex, and the onset of puberty has been shown to be earlier in autistic girls. Research suggests a role for sex hormones in autism during…
Saliva and Dried Blood Spot Sampling: Enabling Biobehavioral Research with Rigor and Reach
Drop Date: November 2025 With increased interest in remote data collection and community-based sampling, investigators are continuously recalibrating and adapting. Biospecimen strategies that enable self-collection while preserving scientific integrity without compromising sampling adherence and compliance are the new normal. The scientific challenge, of course, lies in capturing meaningful variability in the context of everyday life. Meeting this challenge requires efficient, effective, standard, and scalable best practices. This is where the combination of self-collected saliva and dried blood spot [...]
Salimetrics Launches Participant Sampling Packs to Improve Sample Integrity and Accelerate Scientific Discovery
October 9, 2025 – Carlsbad, CA Salimetrics, a global leader in better research methods, has announced the release of Participant Sampling Packs (PSPs), pre-kitted, participant-ready biospecimen collection packs designed to reduce administrative resources, increase sample quality, participant compliance, and provide high-quality data consistent across clinical, behavioral, and translational research studies. Salimetrics’ Participant Sampling Packs (PSPs) [...]
Career Opportunity: Join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor of Public Health
The Department of Health and Kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is seeking an Assistant Professor of Public Health for a…
Better Biobehavioral Science: Revisiting Sample Organization Best Practice Recommendations
Drop Date: October 2025 Align your sample organization with the requirements of contemporary multi-site, multi-analyte, multi-sample and specimen types and decentralized protocols. In protocols that involve biospecimen collection, a critical step is creating a system up front for organizing sampling logistics. The right sampling logistics reduces miscommunication among the many parties involved (e.g., project coordinators, [...]
Better Bioscience: The Little Things Add Up
Drop Date: September 2025 Commentary by Dr. Douglas Granger. In academia, working relationships with colleagues and collaborators can be very productive. When team science works right, it’s a fantastic experience and highly valuable for all involved. Yet sometimes it’s a heavy lift to find team members who fit right with your research program. This can be [...]
Examining the link between salivary testosterone and psychological perceptions between first-time parents
“The transition to parenthood is a challenging time for couples especially because of the biological and psychological changes that occur…
Salivary Uric Acid, Telomere Length, and Intersectionality in African Americans
“We examined how salivary uric acid relates to telomere length among African Americans, considering age and gender through an intersectional lens. Our findings reveal that uric acid is associated with…
Salimetrics Publishes an Easy-to-Follow Sample Collection Handbook to Standardize Dried Blood Spot Collection in Biobehavioral Research
A new Salimetrics’ research guidance tool establishes a common protocol to standardize the collection of dried blood spot biospecimens of the highest-quality, at scale, and with minimal…