Enter the exosome: WVU researcher studies how cancer and immune cells communicate

Source: Eurek Alert!, November 2019

Cells can’t text each other the way we can, but they can still communicate. One way they send each other messages is through exosomes–tiny, spherical “packages" of information they emit.

David Klinke, a researcher with the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Cancer Institute, is deciphering the contents of exosomes that cancer cells release. Studying the information exosomes contain and how they influence other cells may suggest new targets for cancer immunotherapy.

“Exosomes are like little balls of information relayed between cells," said Klinke, an associate professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

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