Stem cell exosomes used to induce damaged mouse hearts to self-repair
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
A little more than a decade ago, researchers discovered that all cells secrete tiny communications modules jammed with an entire work crew of messages for other cells. Today, a team of researchers is harnessing the communications vesicles excreted by stem cells and using them to induce the damaged heart to repair itself.