• Question: What does the vesicles do?

    Asked by phguan to Cristina on 10 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Emmie.
    • Photo: Cristina Villa del Campo

      Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Hi phguan,

      I work with tiny vesicles (so tiny that a normal microscope doesn’t see them) that are called exosomes and the cells use them to send information to other cells. The cell that gets the vesicle starts doing different things, like maybe dividing or maybe turning into a different cell. It depends on what the package of the vesicle is. We want to see if these vesicles help muscle cells to recover after an injury.

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