Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Cocaine vaccine

The experimental vaccine is a combination of cocaine-like compound molecules and adenovirus particles that stimulate an immune response, but do not cause disease.

25.01.2011
Biomedicine

AIDS Treatment: RNA with a homing warhead

An aptamer, a chain of nucleotides that recognizes one of the HIV proteins, drags a short interfering RNA through the virus envelope that blocks the reproduction of the immunodeficiency virus.

24.01.2011
Biomedicine

Heart attack treatment: liposomes call for help

Researchers from Israel have proposed a fundamentally new strategy for the treatment of a heart attack: to activate the immune system with the help of liposomes carrying a molecular label characteristic of dying cells.

19.01.2011
Biomedicine

Remove the second chin with one injection?

Phase I and II clinical studies have shown that injections of ATX-101 (sodium deoxycholate) into adipose tissue they are able to reduce the volume of fat deposits without significant side effects. Let's wait for the end of phase III…

14.01.2011
Biomedicine

Personal exomics

The method of sequencing not the entire genome of a patient, but only exons – sections of DNA encoding sequences of amino acids in proteins – has recently entered clinical practice, but already demonstrates brilliant results.

13.01.2011
Biomedicine

Biocompatible implants for bone restoration

Due to the factors of bone tissue growth, the implant not only serves as a support on which the bone grows, but in itself becomes an active principle that initiates the formation of bone tissue.

21.12.2010
Biomedicine

Nanosurgeons will operate on the tumor

Single-stranded DNA aptamers are able to bind to receptors on the surface of tumor cells, and magnetic nanoparticles connected to them allow the tumor to be torn to shreds.

20.12.2010
Biomedicine

Binary drug for gene therapy

MGNC scientists are developing a gene therapy system in which both miRNAs that suppress the expression of unwanted genes and the surrounding "baskets" of DNA have a therapeutic effect.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

Putty for bones: on sale soon

A substance that is injected into a broken bone and restores its structure can completely displace metal structures and prostheses used in fractures.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

How to mend the heart?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers propose to mend damage to the heart and other organs with fibrin fibers seeded with stem cells.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

Internship at Procter &Gamble

Procter & Gamble invites Russian citizens, students of the last two years of study and graduate students specializing in natural sciences to take an internship at one of the European research centers.

08.12.2010
Biomedicine

Returnees: Alexander Kabanov, nanomedicine specialist

Director of the first academic nanomedical center in America and in the world – about plans to organize a laboratory in Russia, targeted delivery of drugs, nanoparticles in cancer treatment and much more.

07.12.2010
Biomedicine

St. Petersburg HIV vaccine: first-hand details

Andrey Kozlov, PhD, Head of the project, Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Director of the Biomedical Center and Head of the laboratory of the Research Institute of Especially Pure Biological Products, tells about the trials of the HIV vaccine that have begun.

29.11.2010
Biomedicine

Returnees: Peter Chumakov, specialist in molecular biology of cancer

Another participant of the project, Sergey Netesov, talks about the treatment of cancer with the help of viruses that are safe for humans. The strain of oncolytic adenovirus created under his leadership is already undergoing clinical trials at the N.N. Blokhin Russian Research Center.

26.11.2010
Biomedicine

Breast cancer and non-coding RNAs

The results of the study of the role of non-coding RNAs in the development and metastasis of breast cancer are already being used in an experimental program for the treatment of "incurable" tumors.

25.11.2010