Shipping/Handling Instructions:

On-campus collections: Tube to 99 or deliver to University Extension Hospital Room EH318 
Whole Blood or Bone Marrow: CRITICAL REFRIGERATED. Separate specimens must be submitted when multiple tests are ordered.
 
  
Off-campus collections: Do NOT spin or aliquot

Specimen to be stored/transported:

•   Whole blood or Bone marrow: CRITICAL Refrigerated

 Unacceptable Conditions
Serum, plasma, CSF, extracted DNA, RNA extracted by a non-CLIA lab, bone core, or FFPE tissues. 
Specimens collected in anticoagulants other than EDTA. Severely hemolyzed or clotted specimens