Bacterial extracellular vesicles (IMAGE)

Children's National Hospital

Bacterial extracellular vesicles

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Children's National Hospital researchers for the first time have isolated bacterial extracellular vesicles from the blood of healthy donors. The team theorizes that the solar eclipse lookalikes contain important signaling proteins and chromatin, DNA from the human host.

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