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Salimetrics Awarded NIH SBIR Phase I Grant to Advance Accessible Metabolic Health Assessment
November 5, 2026(November 5, 2026 - Carlsbad, CA) Salimetrics, LLC has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance the development and evaluation of a new approach to metabolic health assessment. The award was made under NIH funding opportunity RFA-MD-24-006, which supports research aimed at improving [...]
Contribute to Salivary Biomarkers in Endocrinology
October 27, 2026Drs. Jenna Riis, Jacinda Dariotis, and Meingold Chan are currently editing a Research Topic in Frontiers in Endocrinology entitled “Salivary Biomarkers in Endocrinology: Advances in Development, Validation, and Clinical and Public Health Applications.” This Research Topic is intended to highlight important advances across the field, spanning biomarker discovery—including hormones, epigenetic markers, and biomarkers of exposures or [...]
Salivary Osteocalcin as a Specific Early-Phase and ANS-Related Component of the Multisystem Acute Stress Response
October 15, 2026Salivary osteocalcin: Reactivity to acute social stress and associations with concomitant stress biomarkers in healthy African Americans Lucas, T. et al., (2026). Psychoneuroendocrinology Summary Highlight: This study examined salivary osteocalcin (sOCN), cortisol, alpha-amylase, and IL-6 in 60 healthy African American adults during the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Salivary osteocalcin increased significantly in men but [...]
Looking Ahead: NIDCR Seeks Input on the Future of Oral Health Research
August 24, 2026The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is looking ahead to 2027-2031 and is asking the research community to help shape what comes next. Through a new Request for Information (NOT-DE-26-015), NIDCR is inviting researchers, industry, healthcare professionals, scientific organizations, patient advocates, and other stakeholders to share perspectives on emerging research needs, gaps, [...]
Six Faces of Melatonin Profiling: What Real-World DLMO Testing Reveals About Sleep Complaints
July 21, 2026A look at findings from 553 sleep clinic patients tested through our home-based salivary DLMO program, and why what patients feel isn't always what their biology shows. Based on Stothard et al., Sleep Medicine (2026) · Rebis Health, BioFrontiers Center, Salimetrics Research & Technology Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Dim Light Melatonin Onset (DLMO) is the gold-standard marker of a [...]
Salivary Biomarkers Help Explore Discrimination and Inflammation in Adolescents
June 5, 2026Daily discrimination and inflammation patterns among Black and Hispanic adolescents Crichlow, QJ. et al., (2026) Psychoneuroendocrinology Summary Highlight: This study investigated how daily experiences of racial discrimination relate to inflammation in Black and Hispanic adolescents. Using daily diaries and salivary biomarkers, including C-reactive protein (CRP) and cytokines, researchers found that discrimination was associated with same-day [...]
Salimetrics CoreLab+: New Initiatives, Expanded Services Now Support DRG and IBL Salivary Assays
April 29, 2026(April 28, 2026 - Carlsbad, CA) Salimetrics, a pioneer and leader in salivary bioscience and research testing services, announced new initiatives today that will expand the services provided by its CoreLab+ laboratory. The expansion allows research teams around the world who began their research careers and research studies using IBL or DRG assays to now have access to Salimetrics’ [...]
How Trauma, Stress, and Discrimination Shape Reproductive Health
April 14, 2026“In collaboration with Salimetrics, we explored the intersection of trauma, stress, and reproductive health among women with lifetime violence exposures in the U.S. Using a bio-psycho-social approach, our study found that both structural stressors, like everyday discrimination, and individual factors, including elevated cortisol and perceived stress, were associated with greater lifetime exposure to violence and [...]
Salivary Cotinine Biomarkers Reveal How Vaping Behavior Influences Nicotine Exposure
March 10, 2026Feasibility 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, [...]
Salivary Biomarkers of Physiological Regulation in Autistic Youth During Therapeutic Horseback Riding
February 9, 2026“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 [...]