Researchers at the Duke-NUS medical school wanted to understand why sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength, is so consistently tied to worse cancer outcomes. To analyze this, they compared muscle tissue from sarcopenic and healthy subjects, focusing on extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are particles that cells release to send signals to other parts of the body. You can think of EVs as microscopic packages muscle ships out to communicate with the rest of you.
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