Hundreds of different species of microbes live in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: ...

These particles, called extracellular vesicles, are considered attractive vehicle models for new drug therapies ... vesicles contain an ion channel -- a protein that opens a corridor allowing ...

Exosomes, the small extracellular vesicles secreted by nearly all cell types, have emerged as powerful players in intercellular communication and potential biomarkers for disease diagnosis and therapy ...

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are nanoscale membranous particles that have emerged as targets for liquid biopsy and as promising drug delivery ... DR5 is a protein on the surface of some ...

A new drug delivery system shows promise for treating a rare, aggressive form of cancer affecting pregnant women and new mothers, and it has potential with other cancers as well.

Manufacturers of monoclonal antibodies and other protein therapeutics ... naturally occurring vesicles that encapsulate biological molecules, thereby facilitating drug delivery.

A new nanomedicine drug delivery system improves chemotherapy targeting for choriocarcinoma, shrinking tumors by 95% in mouse models. Researchers engineered polymersomes to enhance methotrexate (MTX) ...

Liposomes Liposomes are self-assembled artificial vesicles developed from amphiphilic ... Polymeric nanocarriers can be categorized based on three drug-incorporation mechanisms.

finding the protein exclusively in the tumor tissue. When they isolated exosomes from the peritoneal cavities of tumor-bearing and control mice, they detected greater LAT1 expression on the vesicles ...

Protein-shelled structures called gas vesicles, illustrated here, can be engineered with Lego-like proteins to improve ultrasound methods. The gas vesicles can help detect specific cell types and ...