Post-doctoral fellow Anneleen Decock presents her recent work on reporting pre-analytical variables in RNA-focused blood plasma studies.
Background: Blood-derived liquid biopsies are appealing biomaterials for various purposes in many medical disciplines as they offer a wide spectrum of analytes to be studied, including extracellular RNA (cell-free RNA; exRNA). The outcome of exRNA measurements is greatly influenced by pre-analytical variables, stressing the importance of disclosing pre-analytic variables in publications to enable adequate interpretation and comparison of research results.