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Hormones (and other metabolites) are most commonly measured by immunoassay, although increasingly mass spectrometry is used. Immunoassays, introduced in the 1960s, are sufficiently sensitive, precise and hormone specific for routine application in clinical biochemistry. Bioassays, which measure physiological responses induced by a stimulus, are near obsolete in clinical practice.