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Wilna Oosthuyzen and Matthew Bailey, from the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, introduce Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NPA), a new technique to quantify Human Urinary Exosomes. NPA has proven a faster and more precise method compared to the Western ...

microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of short, non-coding RNA can be found in a highly stable, cell-free form in mammalian body fluids. Specific miRNAs are secreted by parasitic nematodes in exosomes and have been detected in the serum of murine and ...

In mammalian systems RNA can move between cells via vesicles. Here, researchers from the University of Edinburgh demonstrate that the gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus, which infects mice, secretes vesicles containing microRNAs (miRNAs) and Y RNAs as well as a nematode ...