Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Dendrimers for brain treatment

Dendrimers loaded with an anti-inflammatory drug penetrate the blood-brain barrier and cure newborn rabbits of cerebral palsy.

26.04.2012
Biomedicine

Stem cells against cancer

Neural stem cells are able to target cancer cells outside the central nervous system. With their help, an enzyme that turns a safe substance into an anti-cancer drug was triggered in tumor cells and metastases.

25.04.2012
Biomedicine

Glioblastoma vaccine: the result is positive

A new therapeutic vaccine against recurrent brain tumor – glioblastoma – in the phase II clinical trial increased the life expectancy of patients by 7 months or more.

19.04.2012
Biomedicine

Take the tumor in a pincer

A young Russian company has taken a swing at a new method of treating cancer. Its specialists decided to combine two unique technologies to arm the immune system against tumor cells and at the same time disarm the defense of the tumor itself.

09.04.2012
Biomedicine

An almost universal vaccine for cancer treatment?

The new treatment method affects a molecule characteristic of 90% of cancer cell types. With its help, scientists hope to create a universal vaccine that will allow the immune system to independently defeat the main types of cancer.

09.04.2012
Biomedicine

Asthma Vaccine

The new nanovector DNA vaccine reduces hypersensitivity of the lungs and suppresses the symptoms of allergic bronchial asthma.

05.04.2012
Biomedicine

Personalized medicine in the postoperative ward

Canadian doctors were the first in the world to use genetic analysis to select the drugs necessary for patients directly during treatment after coronary artery surgery.

02.04.2012
Biomedicine

Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies

From March 20 to 22, 2012, a scientific and practical conference "Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies" was held in the Moscow Government building.

02.04.2012
Biomedicine

Telomeres and the heart

Scientists have demonstrated the existence of a pronounced relationship between the short length of telomeres and the risk of death due to disorders of the cardiovascular system or myocardial infarction.

27.03.2012
Biomedicine

The Achilles heel of cancer

Stanford University researchers have discovered a protein that protects cancer cells from the body's immune system and found a way to block it, which led to the destruction of human cancerous tumors in the bodies of mice.

27.03.2012
Biomedicine

Cannabinoid Agonist against AIDS

Scientists have established how cannabinoid receptors on the surface of immune cells can influence the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus – unfortunately, only in the late stages of AIDS.

26.03.2012