New Type of Extracellular Nanoparticle Discovered

International researchers headed by a team at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a new category of nanoparticle messengers—dubbed exomeres—that shuttle molecules such as proteins, fats, and nucleic acids between cells, and could play a role in cancer development or how well patients tolerate chemotherapy. The nanosized exomeres, discovered using a state-of-the-art technique known as asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4), are produced by both normal and cancer cells, but