The team investigates extracellular vesicles as next-generation drug platform by engineering their uniformity, receives $2.3M from the NIH Researchers at the University of California, Davis, want to even...
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Their project, “Metabolic Tagging of Tumor Exosomes for Developing Enhanced Exosome Vaccines,” will study tumor exosomes – small...
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It’s being hailed as the next generation of stem-cell therapy, and a Schulich School of Engineering PhD student is making it a key part of her research. Sara Hassanpour Tamrin says exosomes are tiny parcels produced by cells that contain a cargo of biologically...
Read More »PANCAID seeks to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages through a blood test
Pancreatic cancer still has the worst prognosis of any cancer today. The rate of incidence is increasing, and we still don’t know why. Currently, there are...
Read More »NIH awards $2.3M to ‘detangle’ complexity of extracellular vesicles
Extracellular vesicles, or EVs, are nanoparticles released by every known cell and relay important messages across the human body — but how they exactly function is not well understood. Professors...
Read More »University at Buffalo and partners are developing new lung cancer screening test
Along with Roswell Park, For-Robin and USC, UB has secured $3.5 million to create a ‘liquid biopsy’ could help spot cancer sooner, improve treatment Lung...
Read More »Newly funded study focuses on extracellular vesicles in HIV-induced aging, Alzheimer’s Disease
HIV in the United States has become a manageable disease, thanks to the free and wide accessibility of antiretroviral therapy. Antiretrovirals work by preventing the virus from making copies of itself by blocking stages of its life cycle. But these drugs have...
Read More »Milk nanoparticles’ biological signaling may have important benefits for cognitive development
Research has revealed that breastmilk consumption can help promote healthy brain development in infants, but not all infants are able to receive...
Read More »Early-career investigator wins award for exosome research
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation congratulates Miguel Flores-Bellver, PhD, recipient of the 2023 Bert M. Glaser, MD Award for Innovative Research in...
Read More »Researchers developing microfluidic chips to perform liquid biopsies
The Center of BioModular Multi-Scale Systems for Precision Medicine (CBM2) research center uses microfluidic chips to perform liquid biopsies. In other words, CBM2 can detect hard-to-diagnose diseases by analyzing bodily fluids through plastic chips...
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