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Jo Vandesompele
@jvdesomp.bsky.social
RNA aficionado, cancer researcher, nucleic acid quantification expert, professor at Ghent University and co-founder of pxlence and InActiv Blue
The model of harmonizing general and domain-specific guidelines provides a scalable blueprint for improving reproducibility across complex biomarker development workflows in molecular diagnostics. The case for EV and qPCR www.oaepublish.com/articles/evc...
MISEV and MIQE: integrating domain-specific and general standards to strengthen extracellular vesicle biomarker research
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have significant potential as therapeutic agents and as sources of diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic nucleic acid biomarkers. However, variability in EV workflows and...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Are you also a desperate cell-free RNA researcher? It’s not always a grim story. Philippe Decruyenaere is defending his excellent PhD thesis on extracellular RNA in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. @crighent.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Eindelijk beeld bij het verhaal van onze genen"

Dit artikeltje wou ik toch even delen. Wetenschappelijk onderzoek helder uitleggen is niet makkelijk, en toch is het belangrijk. Hier legt Hanne, een doctoraal onderzoeker in ons OncoRNALab (@crighent.bsky.social @ds-ugent.bsky.social) ...
June 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
7 years in the making... 1.6 liters of blood and 11 billion sequencing reads to compare 456 extracellular transcriptomes.

Our best practices for blood plasma extracellular RNA profiling have been published as a peer-reviewed article.

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The road to discovery - a collaborative effort towards new insights in blood plasma RNA profiling
After more than seven years of research, our extracellular RNA quality control (exRNAQC) study has culminated in a scientific publication. This milestone is not just about sharing new findings – it re...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
After 16 years, an update of the qPCR #MIQE guidelines is out on how to design, execute, analyze, and report on #qPCR experiments doi.org/10.1093/clin.... The original paper from 2009 accumulated 17,000 citations (scholar.google.be/citations?vi...). @genequan.bsky.social @jimhuggett.bsky.social
MIQE 2.0: Revision of the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments Guidelines
AbstractBackground. In 2009, the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE) guidelines established standards for
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April 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Jo Vandesompele
👉 Finally the update of the MIQE Guidelines is out in Clinical Chemistry 👍
𝗠𝗜𝗤𝗘 𝟮.𝟬: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗣𝗖𝗥 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
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April 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Reposted by Jo Vandesompele
New evidence @nejm.org today that age-related clonal hematopoiesis (CHIP) has a driver role in evolution of solid cancers
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Clonal Hematopoiesis as a Driver of Solid Tumors | NEJM
Clonal hematopoiesis is the expansion of a genetically related population of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells that disproportionately contribute to blood-cell production.1 Clonal hematopoies...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ik heb zopas de resulaten doorgestuurd van de waterkwaliteit in de Tichelbeek t.h.v. de Brandstraat in Zulte, als deel van het grootste burgeronderzoek ooit. Ben je ook benieuwd naar de resultaten? Neem dan een kijkje op www.watermonsters.be. Vanaf 7 juni zijn alle resultaten gekend. #watermonsters
April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposted by Jo Vandesompele
Ever wondered what RNA in your body fluids can reveal about your health? 🤔 Eva Hulstaert took on the challenge, collecting and analyzing various biofluids to uncover hidden insights. 👩‍🔬 Anneleen Decock & I share the story of this fascinating quest in EOS Wetenschap (in Dutch): tinyurl.com/4ev7vk83
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Rond 400 voor Christus ontwikkelde Hippocrates, de grondlegger van de moderne geneeskunde, zijn leer der humores. Hij stelde dat de gezondheid van de mens af...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Did you know that our body contains dozens of different biofluids (like blood, sweat, urine, saliva, ...) and that these give insights into our health? OncoRNALab members @amorlion.bsky.social and Anneleen Decock wrote a fascinating story (in Dutch) in the science magazine Eos - lnkd.in/ern_2kDW
February 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Transitioning from SYBR Green I qPCR assays to cost-efficient multiplex digital PCR is a breeze with universal Rainbow detection probes.
February 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#OncoRNALab current and past members list is growing on @bsky.app bsky.app/profile/jvde...
January 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Version 2 of our tail biomarker gene preprint is available. Novel way of exploiting cell-free RNA in blood plasma from cancer patients. doi.org/10.1101/2023... #liquidbiopsy
December 29, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Open vacancy for PhD fellowship at Ghent University to work on novel spatial -omics platform www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
PhD Student
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December 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM