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Biomedicine

New drug may ease the effects of stroke

The experimental drug NA-1, designed to prevent irreversible damage in stroke, is safe for patients and reduces the number of ischemic infarction zones in the brain.

12.10.2012

Biomedicine

Hope for Duchenne myodystrophy patients

A new experimental drug has improved the muscle function of boys with a form of Duchenne myodystrophy.

12.10.2012

Your health

Stroke prevention: more tomatoes!

The high content of the antioxidant lycopene in the blood reduces the risk of stroke by more than 2 times. Especially a lot of lycopene is contained in tomatoes.

12.10.2012

Various

Unrecognized life expectancy record

Although the birth certificate and passport indicate that Antisa Khvichava was born in 1880, these are not originals, but copies. Therefore, it cannot be officially recognized that she died at the age of 132.

11.10.2012

Biomedicine

The dangerous complication of bone marrow transplantation was suppressed

Blocking the interferon-gamma receptor prevents the development of a graft-versus-host reaction after bone marrow transplantation, while simultaneously stimulating the graft-versus-leukemia effect.

11.10.2012

Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: we will go the other way!

Unfortunately, it seems that the fight against the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease – amyloid plaques – is useless. It is possible that workarounds for the treatment of this disease will be effective.

11.10.2012

Biomedicine

Another way to deliver drugs to cancer cells

French scientists propose a new approach to solving an old problem: the enzyme beta-galactosidase generates an active drug from an inactive precursor that can only be captured by cancer cells.

11.10.2012

Cellular technologies

Lymph nodes can be transformed into the liver, thymus and pancreas

Transplantation of liver, thymus and pancreatic cells into lymph nodes can be a temporary alternative to transplantation of full-fledged donor organs.

11.10.2012

Genetics

Jurassic Park will never be opened

The talk that it would be good to isolate the DNA of dinosaurs or insects trapped in an amber trap can be stopped.

11.10.2012

Your health

The antioxidant will find a hole

Researchers from Kingston University in London have shown that most of the products attributed to antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties do not have a systemic effect on the body.

11.10.2012

Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnologies – innovation and sustainable development

The round table will discuss the prospects for the development of biotechnologies in Russia, their role in innovative development and their impact on the country's economy.

11.10.2012

Biomedicine

To the question of the benefits of nicotine

As a result of joint work, an international group of scientists has found out how nicotine helps to improve memory.

10.10.2012

Biomedicine

An important step to creating a cream for the treatment of melanoma

Australian researchers have synthesized a peptide that mimics the myxoma virus, which kills melanoma. Based on it, scientists want to make a cream that will be effective at an early stage of the disease.

10.10.2012

Nanotechnology

Is a cream with nanoparticles nothing more than a publicity stunt?

Don't believe the advertising: a study by scientists at the University of Bath has shown that even with partial damage to a skin sample, nanoparticles do not penetrate through the upper stratum corneum of the epidermis.

10.10.2012

Other life sciences

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to molecular biologists

Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka made fundamental discoveries that explained how one of the important classes of cellular receptors, G–protein coupled receptors, works.

10.10.2012

Prolonging youth

Old stem cells can be restored to youth

The technique of rejuvenation of stem cells of elderly patients opens the way to increase the effectiveness of autologous cell therapy of various diseases and to the overall rejuvenation of the body.

10.10.2012

Theories of aging

Life expectancy does not depend on the length of telomeres

An adequate indicator of life expectancy was not the actual length of telomeres, but the rate of their shortening.

10.10.2012

Healthy skepticism

Why is a bad life better than a good one

I'm going to teach you how to live for a long time and never get sick. I'm telling you the recipe...

10.10.2012

Grants and competitions

Start-2013

The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the holding of open competitions for small businesses under the Start-2013 program.

08.10.2012

Nanotechnology

Together against cancer

Antibodies specific to the receptor on the surface of cancer cells that triggers the mechanism of apoptosis cannot activate it singly. Magnetic nanoparticles helped to assemble them into groups.

08.10.2012