What is it about?
This proof of principle study demonstrates that it would be possible to process blood spots from remnant blood volumes taken in vet health checks and discriminate between phenotypes, similar to plasma samples that require more resources to produce.
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Why is it important?
If deployed in veterinary clinics, 100,000s of remnant blood samples could be collected and stored annually with minimal resources. These biobanked samples could be used to discover markers associated with predisposition or early stages of disease, accelerating biomarker discovery and enabling identification of rare diseases.
Perspectives
I'm really excited about the potential of Dried Blood Spots (DBS), a relatively easy sample to acquire, to enable a shift in biobanking opportunities to deliver diagnostics much sooner than could be readily achieved using standard biosamples. I also want to shout out my appreciation to my co-authors, who delivered the work during COVID, which was so challenging and impacted so many research activities.
Dr David Allaway
Mars Inc
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This page is a summary of: Suitability of Dried Blood Spots for Accelerating Veterinary Biobank Collections and Identifying Metabolomics Biomarkers With Minimal Resources, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, June 2022, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.887163.
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