Recent discoveries in the field of large extracellular vesicles have revealed a greater diversity in subtypes than was appreciated even only a decade or so ago. A study now describes a cell-autonomous, motile, organelle-rich extracellular vesicle with cell-like functions and the largest one yet — the blebbisome.
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D’Souza-Schorey, C., Di Vizio, D. A class of large cell-like extracellular vesicles. Nat Cell Biol 27, 372–374 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-025-01611-2
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