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ArticleTrends in biotechnology2026

Comparison of technologies for manufacturing extracellular vesicles for therapeutic applications.

Selen Uman, Kendra Worthington, Jessica Dominic, Pavan Atluri, Jason A Burdick

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Article in Trends in biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Targeting Gli1Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Selen UmanDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Kendra WorthingtonBioFrontiers Institute and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA.
Jessica DominicDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19144, USA.
Pavan AtluriDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19144, USA. Electronic address: pavan.atluri@jefferson.edu.
Jason A BurdickDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA. Electronic address: jason.burdick@colorado.edu.

Funding

Training and Dissemination CoreP41EB023833 · NIBIB · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI FISHER, JOHN P, MIKOS, ANTONIOS G. · 2017 to 2021
$6.2M
Engineered Granular Hydrogels for Endogenous Tissue RepairR01HL160616 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI BURDICK, JASON A · 2022 to 2025
$2.5M
A Novel Shear Thinning Hydrogel System for Advanced Cellular Therapy in Ischemic Heart DiseaseR01HL135090 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ATLURI, PAVAN · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL135090NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL160616NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB023833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have gained significant attention as therapeutics, building from natural mechanisms of paracrine signaling. The field has evolved with substantial heterogeneity in methods to isolate and characterize EVs and new methods are needed to scale-up EV production for therapeutic use. In this study, we isolated EVs from four porcine donors of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) via three different cell culture methods: standard tissue culture plates, a 3D printed perfusion bioreactor, and microcarriers in spinner flasks. We explored EV manufacturing yield, characteristics, and content via proteomics and RNAseq. The MSC donor and their cell culture method affected the yield of EVs produced, whereas the method of EV isolation dominated the clustering of protein and RNA contents. As a step towards therapeutic application, in vitro tubule formation and hypoxic cardiac spheroid contraction assays showed improvements in vasculogenesis and cardiac cell recovery, respectively, in the presence of EVs.

Indexed as

Cell Culture TechniquesExtracellular VesiclesAnimalsBioreactorsCells, CulturedHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsMyocytes, CardiacProteomicsSwinebioreactorextracellular vesiclesmanufacturingtherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID41320582
PMCPMC13179004

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