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Through multi-stage preparation, which included centrifugation of the blood samples, the researchers were able to capture the proteins contained in vesicles.

Rome assigned her the task of comparing the vesicles entering lysosomes with the ones exiting.

The remarkably precise method allows researchers to peer into nanometer-sized membrane sacs, called extracellular vesicles or EVs, that can carry different types of cargos, like proteins, nucleic acids and metabolites, in the bloodstream.

When our cells communicate, they send out small membrane bubbles known as extracellular vesicles which contain various signalling molecules.

This new study builds upon previous work in Higuita-Castro's lab, which reported a year ago that nanocarriers called extracellular vesicles loaded with anti-inflammatory cargo curbed tissue injury in damaged mouse lungs.