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• News & Views | 29 March 2023

  Exosome-disrupting peptides for cancer immunotherapy

  A curvature-sensing peptide is used to disrupt exosomes for enhanced cancer immunotherapy.

  • Ningqiang Gong
  • , Alex G. Hamilton
  •  & Michael J. Mitchell

• News & Views | 23 October 2018

  Targeting vesicle size

  An amphipathic peptide has been engineered and is capable of penetrating the blood–brain barrier as well as possessing a potent antiviral activity against Zika and other mosquito-borne viruses.

  • Jing Zou
  •  & Pei-Yong Shi

• Letter | 22 October 2018

  Therapeutic treatment of Zika virus infection using a brain-penetrating antiviral peptide

  The Zika virus infects the central nervous system and results in severe brain malformation. An amphiphatic peptide is now shown to penetrate the blood–brain barrier, reducing viral loads due to its activity against Zika and other mosquito-borne viruses.

  • Joshua A. Jackman
  • , Vivian V. Costa
  •  & Nam-Joon Cho

• News & Views | 01 September 2017

  Sticking around vessels

  A study demonstrates that controlled integrin binding on a biomaterial was capable of promoting vascular cell sprouting and formation of a non-leaky blood vessel network in a healthy and diseased state.

  • Michael R. Blatchley
  •  & Sharon Gerecht