A Cedars-Sinai research collaboration has described the first steps in how the body forms villi, the finger-like projections that cover the surface of the small intestine.

Exosomes are extracellular vesicles, that are involved in physiological processes like coagulation, waste management and intercellular communication.

Cedars-Sinai physician-scientists (from left) Paul Noble, MD; Christine Albert, MD, MPH; and Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD; at the Association of American Physicians annual meeting in Chicago in April 2024. Noble is the new president of the AAP, and Albert and Seki are new members.

Seated in the defendants' dock of the 1946-47 Nuremberg Doctors' Trial are 20 physicians and three Nazi officials accused of committing medical crimes during the Holocaust.