Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Dendritic cells against melanoma

The development of a prototype cancer vaccine from mutated tumor proteins has become a small breakthrough in personalized medicine, on which most hopes are pinned in the fight against cancer.

06.04.2015
Biomedicine

Not from cancer, but from Alzheimer's

The substance AZD0530 as a cure for cancer has not shown encouraging results, and would have been forgotten if not for a new project of the National Institutes of Health, which launched a project giving a second chance to non-working drugs.

03.04.2015
Biomedicine

Blood cancer, kill yourself!

If you amplify the cellular signal that prompts immune cells to divide uncontrollably, this will cause them to destroy themselves.

30.03.2015
Biomedicine

Cement the fracture

Scientists of the Seversk Institute of Technology (STI) in the Tomsk region have developed a technology for obtaining a material capable of replacing a part of a human bone damaged as a result of injuries and fractures.

30.03.2015
Biomedicine

Personal medicine

The words "personalized medicine" and "genome analysis" have been found regularly lately. What it is, explains Sergey Moshkovsky, head of the Department of Personalized Medicine at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Chemistry.

26.03.2015
Biomedicine

Antibodies for the treatment of psoriasis

A significant improvement in the condition of patients with psoriasis was noted after they were injected with human antibodies that block a signaling protein that triggers a cascade of immune reactions associated with the disease.

23.03.2015
Biomedicine

Rapid test for the cause of infection

The test will help to avoid prescribing antibiotics to patients with a viral infection, and those who need antibiotics will prescribe them faster.

20.03.2015
Biomedicine

Tumour switch

An international group of doctors has discovered a set of proteins common to many cancer cells, the appearance of which in the vicinity of the tumor dramatically slows down its growth, which can be used to treat cancer and make life easier for patients.

16.03.2015
Biomedicine

A viagra-based panacea?

Molecular biologists have discovered an almost magical new effect of viagra: in combination with an experimental anti-inflammatory drug, it can be used to suppress "tenacious" infections, destroy cancer and treat many neurodegenerative diseases.

12.03.2015
Biomedicine

Farewell, the second chin!

Independent experts at the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously approved the drug ATX-101, which removes the double chin.

10.03.2015
Biomedicine

New drug turns white fat into brown

Scientists from the Houston Methodist Research Institute have demonstrated the ability of the experimental drug GC-1 to significantly accelerate metabolism by converting white fat into brown fat.

10.03.2015
Biomedicine

The return of 2,4-dinitrophenol

A new form of a long–banned weight loss drug (originally an explosive that showed an unexpected side effect) cured rats of type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

06.03.2015
Biomedicine

Neurodegenerative diseases: early diagnosis by skin biopsy

In subjects with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, the level of tau- and alpha-synuclein in the skin was increased compared to the control group and with patients suffering from other types of dementia.

27.02.2015
Biomedicine

HIV: a new hope

A group of scientists led by Professor Michael Farzan published an article in the journal Nature about a successful trial on monkeys of a promising method of treating and preventing HIV infection.

25.02.2015