We are facing a growing issue of pollution caused by microplastics in the air, water, and soil, highlighting the need for robust analytical methods to handle this problem. Microplastics are categorized as macro-, micro-, and nanoplastics, originating from primary sources (such as manufactured micro-sized plastics in cosmetics) and secondary sources…

Hair and steroids in DBS
As part of the SNSF-funded project "Understanding the resilience pathways of adolescent students with experience of physical family violence: The interplay of individual, family and school class risk and protective factors", we developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method to detect eight different steroids in hair samples.

The increasing microplastic pollution in air, water and soil requires the development of robust and sensitive analytical methods to better understand and address the problem. Plastics are cheap, stable and corrosion resistant, making this class of materials attractive for many applications. Plastics consist of long chains of polymer molecules made…

Dr. med. vet. Julia Lechmann Together with Prof. Stefan Gaugler, Dr. med. vet. Julia Lechmann will be working on dried blood spot (DBS) analysis in veterinary medicine at the FHNW. The aim of their project is to transfer the detection of various animal pathogens from liquid blood to DBS…