The authors gratefully acknowledge S. Pecha for sample extraction and all members of the EARTH study team, specifically the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health research nurses J.B. Ford and M.G. Keller, research staff R. Dadd and P. Morey, physicians and staff at Massachusetts General Hospital fertility center, and a special thanks to all the study participants. (ehp.niehs.nih.gov)
«Most of what we are all doing with liquid biopsies is dealing with very small numbers [of molecules], so using a poor sample extraction or nonoptimized kit can really get rid of a lot of the signal,» she says. (sciencemag.org)
Conventional mass spectrometry will give molecular information on the samples but spatial information is lost, during sample extraction and homogenization. (mdanderson.ilabsolutions.com)