The LNS Medical Biology Department performs essential analyses for the prevention, diagnosis, and monitoring of numerous conditions. From biochemistry to newborn screening, as well as toxicology and allergology, it provides patients and healthcare professionals with comprehensive expertise supported by state-of-the-art technologies.

  • Biochemistry: specific proteins, protein electrophoresis and immunofixation, transaminases, ferritin, hemoglobin electrophoresis
  • Endocrinology: vitamins, urinary catecholamines, porphyria diagnosis, steroids
  • Stone analysis
  • Medical toxicology: screening and confirmation of opiates and opioids, benzodiazepines, cannabis, methadone, amphetamines, hallucinogens, cocaine, therapeutic drug monitoring (antibiotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, uracil), poisoning, addiction monitoring (EtG, cotinine)
  • Allergology: total and specific IgE, tryptase, lymphocyte transformation test (LTT), and basophil activation test (BAT)
  • Inborn errors of metabolism: amino acids, organic acids, and acylcarnitines
  • Newborn screening: phenylketonuria, congenital hypothyroidism, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, cystic fibrosis, MCAD deficiency, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Note: To perform these analyses, the Department uses separation methods such as chromatography (UPLC and GC) coupled with mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, as well as methods more commonly used in medical testing laboratories.

For more information on the analyses performed, please consult our Analysis Catalog.