Human glioblastoma cells release microvesicles containing a diverse set of proteins, miRNAs and mRNAs, which can be taken up by normal host cells that translate the mRNA. Glioma-derived ...

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?

New research has found that extracellular microvesicles can also carry DNA from the tumor to other cells, promoting the spread or metastasis of cancer. Cancer is most deadly when it's metastatic.

Exosomes and microvesicles (MVs) are extracellular vesicular bodies that are found in a wide range of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms and play a major role in many pathological and ...

A new article discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can ...

Researchers have proved that a microvesicle-based instrument can be effective in reducing inflammation and immune response.

The same research team that first discovered tumor-associated RNA in tiny membrane-enclosed sacs released into the bloodstream by cancer cells has now found that these microvesicles also contain ...

This minimum size limit allows, however, the analysis of microvesicles and exosomes of a size which would normally be far below the detection threshold of 300 nm for most commercially available flow ...

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 ...

Microvesicles could provide a promising novel approach to cancer therapy say researchers in a novel study.

High levels of retrotransposon-associated RNA sequences were also detected in tumor microvesicles, and the investigators found those microvesicles could transfer their contents into normal cells.