Microvesicles are found in abundance within rheumatoid arthritis synovial fluids and yet their function has been a mystery. Whether they could interact with the cartilage was unknown. What’s new?

The extracellular microvesicles contain molecules from inside the tumor cell, including microRNA that triggers protein production. Those microvesicles can also move into circulation. New research has ...

Microvesicles are membrane-bound vesicles shed by numerous cell types that contain various plasma membrane proteins (and other biomolecules) that are characteristic of the cell of origin.

Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can be detected in the body fluids of cancer patients. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Jumping genes: Tumor microvesicles reveal detailed genetic information Date: February 14, 2011 Source: Massachusetts General Hospital Summary: The same research team that first discovered tumor ...

Lee T H, D’Asti E, Magnus N, Al-Nedawi K, Meehan B and Rak J (2011) Microvesicles as mediators of intercellular communication in cancer—the emerging science of cellular ‘debris’, Semin ...

Microvesicles are basically miniature copies of cells. But, unlike stem cells, they are not oncogenic and can be a safe treatment medium," she says.

Microvesicles could not only offer more effective drug delivery but would actually provide a safer alternative to chemotherapy, since researchers would be able to target the treatment to cancer cells ...

The study of exosomes and other cell-derived microvesicles is an area of rapidly growing importance and the subject of intense interest and research. The previous lack of suitable methods for their ...

The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team that first discovered tumor-associated RNA in tiny membrane-enclosed sacs released into the bloodstream by cancer cells has now found that ...

While the principles underpinning the Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) technique have been described in an earlier white paper, it must be reiterated that the use of high intensity laser beams ...