A research team at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Faculty of Medicine at Kanazawa University has developed a new class of engineered extracellular vesicles (EVs) capable of inducing antigen-specific regulatory T cells (Tregs), the immune cells that play a central role in suppressing excessive immune responses. The findings, now published in Drug Delivery, may pave the way for next-generation therapies for autoimmune and allergic diseases, where unwanted immune activation must be precisely controlled.

For the first time, researchers have created a map which explains how the genome gives rise to different cell types in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. It's the first genome regulation atlas for a non-model species and lays the foundation for studying how animal cell types evolved on Earth, including the cnidocyte, which give jellyfish and anemones their characteristic sting.