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Rice University Researchers

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Rice University researchers found that some cancer cells get as much as 60 percent of their fuel from eating exosomes, tiny communications packets emitted by neighboring cells. The team includes (from left) Lifeng Yang, Deepak Nagrath, Joelle Baddour, Abhinav Achreja and Hongyun Zhao.

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