Researchers backed by an $8 million U.S. Department of Defense grant will explore how to better prevent traumatic brain injury, or TBI, in...
Read More »Researchers examine milk as possible cancer fighter
In health care, perhaps no word sends a more chilling message than “cancer.” Brain tumors, for example, prove especially resistant to current treatments. Only 5% of patients with that...
Read More »Grant will fund research to characterize the functional roles of milk exosomes
Maternal obesity not only impacts the health of mothers, it also has profound effects on the baby’s development during key periods of early life, such...
Read More »Texas A&M researchers will examine tick extracellular vesicles for proteins that cause immune responses in cattle and deer
Adela Chavez, AgriLife Research entomologist and assistant professor, received $530,405 received a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant directed at creating new...
Read More »NDSU faculty member works to find breakthrough cancer treatment
North Dakota State University researcher Dali Sun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded nearly $400,000 from...
Read More »Grant to fund new extracellular vesicle treatment for stroke patients
The National Institutes of Health is funding a $1.8 million project led by a researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering that will use artificially...
Read More »SynGAP Research Fund announces $100,000 Exosome Grant to Professor Janos Zempleni of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
What if milk could be used to deliver genetic therapies to the brain of SYNGAP1 patients? The first step is to see if natural nanoparticles (“exosomes”) in milk can improve SynGAP expression...
Read More »Biologists awarded $2.3 million to investigate how plants use RNA from extracellular vesicles to fight off disease
Although extracellular sRNAs had been shown to co-purify with extracellular vesicles (EVs), it had not been clearly established whether sRNAs were located inside or outside EVs, or whether plants secreted...
Read More »NIH awards grant to TTUHSC researcher to study extracellular vesicle’s role in cancer
Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare form of cancer that affects up to eight of every one million women of reproductive age worldwide...
Read More »OU Health researcher earns grant to study new exosome drug delivery concept for lung cancer
Lung cancer, especially when diagnosed at stage 3 or 4, is notoriously difficult to treat. Only a fraction of patients respond to existing treatments, and the...
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