Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Give the body to repair

In a couple of decades, a person will be updated with the help of regenerative cellular and gene technologies, like a car that has got stuck in a car service station.

25.03.2013
Biomedicine

Laboratory under the skin

A miniature subcutaneous implant that sends the data it collects directly to the attending physician's computer will simultaneously monitor the dynamics of concentrations of five clinically significant compounds in the patient's blood.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Tumor, kill yourself!

A new method of gene therapy of oncological diseases is the use of cancer cells for the synthesis of one of the components of natural antitumor immunity – interleukin-12. The activity of interleukin production can be regulated by a drug that includes the work of a gene injected into tumor cells.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Two hormones will help in the fight against obesity

After intravenous administration of a combination of glucagon and glucan-like peptide 1, the volunteers consumed almost 18% fewer calories than after placebo infusions or only one of the hormones.

20.03.2013
Biomedicine

Bioengineered liver hits barriers

Domestic biomedical, including cellular, technologies are being developed by the efforts of enthusiastic scientists, but they cannot reach hundreds of thousands of patients due to lack of money, personnel and state support.

18.03.2013
Biomedicine

Cancer under control

The test for extracellular tumor DNA determines the condition of cancer patients with greater accuracy than the FDA-approved test for cancer cells circulating in the blood.

15.03.2013
Biomedicine

Triple blow to cancer

Many anticancer drugs hit one target, but the tumor cunningly bypasses the blocked channel. American scientists of Russian origin are creating a unique anti-cancer drug that hits three goals at once.

05.03.2013
Biomedicine

Kadsila against breast cancer

A new drug from the arsenal of personalized medicine – Kadsil (trastuzumab emtanzin) – has received FDA approval.

04.03.2013
Biomedicine

Anti-alcohol nanocapsules

Mice who ate alcohol with nanocapsules with enzymes that break down ethanol to acetic acid sobered up much faster than their drinking buddies from the control group. The authors of the work plan to add a third enzyme to the nanocapsules that removes the symptoms of a hangover.

26.02.2013
Biomedicine

"Mosquito net" for the flu virus

A new experimental drug prevents the flu virus from entering the cell, allowing the immune system to stop its spread through the body. The artificial origin of this neuraminidase inhibitor reduces the likelihood of resistant strains.

26.02.2013
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of fractures

The healing of fractures and fractures of bones will be accelerated by a paste with synthetic nanoparticles based on calcium phosphate, in which two genes of growth factors that stimulate the formation of bone tissue and blood vessels are encapsulated.

18.02.2013
Biomedicine

Tat-beclin 1 – the long-awaited panacea?

By triggering the autophagy mechanism, a synthetic peptide called tat-beclin-1 protects the body from malignant, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and also prevents aging.

11.02.2013
Biomedicine

New tuberculosis vaccine: the first pancake lump

Currently, about 12 new TB vaccines are being tested on humans, the first of which was MVA85A, which turned out to be ineffective. Almost 50 more candidate vaccines are currently being tested in the laboratory.

05.02.2013
Biomedicine

Two-stage immunotherapy for ovarian cancer

The results of the first phase of two-stage personalized ovarian cancer immunotherapy have demonstrated not only the safety and good tolerability of therapy, but also positive clinical results.

04.02.2013