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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Working hypothesis of piRNA use in diagnosis and therapies. The identification of EV-piRNAs collected by the blood of cancer patients can be useful as diagnostic biomarkers. The engineering of EVs, loading ectopic piRNA, may allow shuttling piRNA useful as new epidrugs.