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FedEx for your cells: this biological delivery service could treat disease

Researchers want to know why cells produce tiny packages called vesicles — and whether these bundles could be used for therapy.
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Collage of Extracellular Vesicles purified from human keratinocytes cell-culture media.

Tiny bubble-like packages called extracellular vesicles purified from human skin cells. Credit: ONI (Oxford Nanoimaging)

Graça Raposo was a young postdoc in the Netherlands in 1996 when she discovered that cells in her laboratory were sending secret messages to each other.

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Nature 621, 462-464 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02906-w

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