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Exosomes are important contributors to cell-cell communication and their role as diagnostic markers for cancer and the pathogenesis for cancer is under intensive investigation. Here, researchers at Roche Diagnostics GmbH focus on their role in metastasis-related processes. They discuss their ...

Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) contain various cancer-associated molecules, such as mutated or overexpressed oncoproteins, glycoproteins, mRNAs, various non-coding RNAs and DNA fragments. They have been shown to propagate phenotypic traits, such as drug resistance, increased proliferation rate, invasiveness and stemness ...