{"id":231965,"date":"2026-02-23T22:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/system-isolates-single-extracellular-vesicle-surface-proteins-to-map-function"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:37:52","slug":"system-isolates-single-extracellular-vesicle-surface-proteins-to-map-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/system-isolates-single-extracellular-vesicle-surface-proteins-to-map-function","title":{"rendered":"System isolates single extracellular vesicle surface proteins to map function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/system-isolates-single-extracellular-vesicle-surface-proteins-to-map-function.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny biological bubbles that carry nucleic acids and proteins between cells, playing an essential role in tissue repair, neuroprotection and immune health. By isolating the surface proteins of these bubbles, researchers can understand more about their biology and build tools to transform extracellular vesicles into next-generation drugs for cancer, neurological conditions and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>UC Davis biomedical engineers are using EVs to crack the code of the body\u2019s message system. Their findings are detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c05047\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEV-mediated intercellular communication is a very powerful system that controls many physiological and pathophysiological phenomena,\u201d said Aijun Wang, a corresponding author of the new study. Wang is Chancellor\u2019s Fellow and professor of biomedical engineering and surgery. \u201cWe know that EVs are therapeutically useful. But how do we define what dictates their functions?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny biological bubbles that carry nucleic acids and proteins between cells, playing an essential role in tissue repair, neuroprotection and immune health. By isolating the surface proteins of these bubbles, researchers can understand more about their biology and build tools to transform extracellular vesicles into next-generation drugs for cancer, neurological conditions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}