Recent Developments in Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2018) | Viewed by 447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lab diagnostics in cardiology, oncology, immunology; analytical, preanalytical and clinical evaluation of new biomarkers; liquid profiling; circulating nucleic acids; epigenetic markers; tumor markers; immunoassays; omics technologies
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Interests: circulating DNA; circulating biomakers in oncology; neutrophil extracelluler traps
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Circulating nucleic acids in plasma and serum (CNAPS) is a rapidly developing field of research that has great implications in many medical areas including prenatal diagnostics, oncology, transplantation medicine, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. From September 20–22, 2017, experts from all over the world gathered at the 10th international symposium on circulating nucleic acids in plasma and serum (CNAPS) in Montpellier, France, to share their experiences and discuss future directions.
The current Special Issue will cover the broad spectrum of CNAPS applications in research and clinical diagnostics. It covers the following topics: i) the structure and detection of circulating DNA; ii) biological functions of circulating DNA, iii) circulating RNA and miRNA; iv) application of CNAPS in oncology, v) in transplant medicine and other pathological conditions, and vi) in prenatal diagnostics. Furthermore, it will identify the role of CNAPS in healthy conditions, the ethical implications of CNAPS diagnostics and highlight the results of workshops dealing with standard operating procedures for pre-analyitcal sample handling and a new standard nomenclature for circulating nucleic acids.
Prof. Stefan HoldenriederProf. Dr. Alain Thierry
Dr. Frank Diehl
Dr. Michael Fleischhacker
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Circulating nucleic acids
- DNA
- RNA
- MiRNA
- Exosomes
- Biology
- prenatal diagnostics
- oncology
- transplantation medicine
- preanalytical handling
- nomenclature
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