Extracellular vesicles and particles have important roles in physiology and disease. Advances in isolation and characterization technologies have enabled the identification of new particles. Supermeres are the newest addition to the rapidly expanding repertoire of the cell secretome, and provide exciting opportunities for clinical translation.
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Clancy, J.W., Boomgarden, A.C. & D’Souza-Schorey, C. Profiling and promise of supermeres. Nat Cell Biol 23, 1217–1219 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-021-00808-5
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