Capturing extracellular vesicles: A new technology for isolating disease markers

Biophysicists from Skoltech, MIPT and their colleagues from the company Prostagnost have created a new technology for isolating extracellular vesicles (EV) from biological fluids. Studying vesicles is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, including cancer. The new technique not only outperforms methods known to date in purity and yield of EVs, but also is simple, fast, inexpensive and can run on standard lab hardware. The research was published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.