The First Conference on Targeting Extracellular ... Vesicles, scheduled for October 17-18, 2024, in Malta, is a significant and strategic event organized by a collaboration between the World ...

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells produce minute (40-1000 nm) membrane vesicles that are released into the local environment. These extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, ...

We discovered that fibroblasts and cardiac myocytes secrete mitochondria inside extracellular vesicles (EV) when their lysosomal function is compromised or overwhelmed. This encapsulation ensures that ...

More information: Xiaorui Chen et al, Small extracellular vesicles from young plasma reverse age-related functional declines by improving mitochondrial energy metabolism, Nature Aging (2024).

If fat cells become metabolically stressed and dysfunctional, they start churning out chunks of mitochondria that serve as warning signals to the heart of potential catastrophe, suggest the authors of ...