University of Missouri-Columbia Oct 29 2025 In the quest for more targeted lung cancer treatments, a researcher at the University of Missouri thinks the solution may lie in tiny bubble-shaped packages that cells use to talk to each other. These microscopic messengers, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are about 3,000 times thinner than a human hair and are released in the billions by nearly every cell in the body, including cancer cells. While EVs from healthy cells carry helpful