Exosome: Bountiful harvest

Exosome Diagnostics Inc. believes its technologies for isolating exosomes from bodily fluids will make its tests for monitoring cancer patients more accurate and reproducible than other fluid-based RNA diagnostics because exosomes contain enriched, high-quality tumor RNA.

Exosomes are microvesicles that are shed into bodily fluids such as blood and urine by many mammalian cell types, including healthy and tumor cells. These vesicles contain proteins and RNA that are specific to the cell from which they are derived...