SECTION 1 OVERVIEWOverview of extracellular vesicles in health and disease – Rienk Nieuwland, Edwin van der Pol and Augueste SturkThe Biogenesis of Exosomes – Michiel PegtelExtracellular vesicle-mediated epigenetic reprogramming of cells G.Camussi, F. Collino, M.C. DeregibusSECTION 2 TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEASUREMENT OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLESAn overview of novel and conventional methods to detect extracellular vesicles. E. van der Pol, T.G. van Leeuwen, R. NieuwlandStandardization and Pre-analytical Variables Romaric Lacroix, Coralie Judicone, Stéphane Robert, Laurent Arnaud, Florence Sabatier and Françoise Dignat-GeorgeProcoagulant Assays Barry Woodhams Capture Based Assays for Extracellular Vesicles within the Blood Jean AmiralFlow Cytometry Romaric Lacroix, Stephane Robert, Florence Sabatier and Francoise Dignat-GeorgeAtomic force microscopy measurement of extracellular vesicles derived from plasma Yuana Yuana and Susanne Osanto Light scattering methods to characterize extracellular vesicles Don A Gabriel MD PhD, Sam Glover, Regina Bowling and Nigel KeyNanoparticle Tracking Analysis Rebecca Dragovic and Chris Gardiner Microvesicle and exosome proteomic analysis Extracellular vesicle proteomic analysis Andrés F. Parguiña and Ángel GarcíaSECTION 3 CLINICAL PERSPECTIVESMicrovesicles and exosomes in Cancer Rebecca Karp and Jeffrey ZwickerExtracellular Vesicles and tissue factor Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou and Nigel MackmanExtracellular vesicles in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia Ian Sargent, Rebecca Dragovic, Dionne Tannetta and Christopher RedmanExtracellular vesicles in Cardiovascular Disease Anne-Clémence Vion, and Chantal M. BoulangerExtracellular vesicles in Immunology Els J. van der Vlist, Esther N.M Nolte’t Hoen and Marca H.M. Wauben