INTERVIEWS WITH N. SPOONER & J. RUDGE
what the technology is going to do for them. Good peer-review, written articles, workshops – anything we can do to get the word out, people thinking about it, asking questions and performing high-quality experiments for themselves to understand the benefits and the limitations.
JR: It’s all about education, all about learning, training, reading and being engaged with the technology. Once one feels more comfortable about using the technology, you know what the potential drawbacks and challenges are, you can build upon that and make good, robust methods that can be very relevant for what it is you’re trying to do.
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NS: One thing that’s been very successful is companies coming together in a non-competitive way to design experiments, share data and publish that data. We’ve seen the IQ Consortium and the European Bioanalysis Forum doing that and I’m sure there’ll be others in the future and I think that’s a very powerful way – more powerful than just an individual or an individual company saying they believe in this and have good data. If there’s 10 or 20 companies all coming forward and saying the same thing, then it tends to convince the slow adopters and the people who will, in the end, accept the data and have to make decisions based upon it.
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What advice would you give to researchers/labs looking to implement microsampling?
NS: I’d say ‘try and come at it with an open mind’. It is new; it is different; it is a change and it’s not perfect. While it’s not going to work for everything, it’s a useful tool to have in the toolbox to use in places where maybe you’ve got project teams who want to collect samples
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