Biomedicine

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A new way to develop diabetes therapy

The discovery of a previously unknown central mechanism for regulating glucose levels opens the way to the creation of fundamentally new effective hypoglycemic drugs.

26.05.2016
Biomedicine

Treat and not cripple

Developed by Siberian scientists, the method of packaging drugs into "cells" of four glycyrrhizic acid molecules makes it possible to reduce the dose of the drug tenfold.

18.05.2016
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Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

A new way to detect beta-amyloid aggregation at an early stage may make the diagnosis and treatment of this neurodegenerative disease much more effective.

16.05.2016
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Nutlin-3 against brittle X chromosome syndrome

The drug, undergoing a phase I clinical trial as a treatment for retinoblastoma, eliminates the manifestations of mental retardation in a mouse model of the brittle X chromosome syndrome.

16.05.2016
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Markers in the blood

About the IHBFM SB RAS project "Development of a noninvasive diagnostic test system for planning lung cancer therapy based on high-performance sequencing of circulating tumor DNA".

16.05.2016
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How Visomitin Works

Scientists have found out why small doses of "Skulachev ions" give a pronounced therapeutic effect, despite the presence of large amounts of natural antioxidants in the mitochondria.

13.05.2016
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AACR – 2016 Conference

The topic of individual cancer vaccines was in the spotlight at the annual conference of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

27.04.2016
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microRNA against myeloid leukemia

A severe malignant blood disease known as acute myeloid leukemia can be cured by increasing the activity of a certain type of microRNA

27.04.2016
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Mechanisms of action of antibiotics

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Andrey Konevega - on the mechanism of action of ribosomes, the apparatus of protein biosynthesis and resistance of bacterial strains to antibiotics.

26.04.2016
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Interleukin-33 against Alzheimer's disease

Injections of interleukin-33 in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease not only eliminate the symptoms of the disease, but also prevent the formation of toxic protein deposits by suppressing inflammation.

25.04.2016
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Aspirin against cancer: new data

Taking low doses of aspirin during routine cancer therapy increases the chances of survival of patients by 20% and helps prevent the formation of metastases.

22.04.2016
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Breast cancer without chemotherapy

The MammaPrint genetic test will increase the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment and in many cases will avoid unnecessary chemotherapy.

22.04.2016
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Beta cell transplantation

Transplantation of donor beta-cell islets prevents the development of severe hypoglycemia episodes in patients with type 1 diabetes and restores blood glucose control.

21.04.2016
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Still hereditary diseases

The American firm JScreen has launched a massive campaign to conduct genetic tests for 104 diseases, the most common in the Jewish environment.

20.04.2016
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Antibiotic development: a new target

American and Japanese scientists have identified changes in the structure of an enzyme that serves as a promising target for new antibiotics.

20.04.2016
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Chimera against cancer

The idea of creating chimeric antigen receptors (chimeric antigen receptor, CAR) belongs to chemist and immunologist Zelig Eskhar from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.

20.04.2016
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Cancer therapy

Tumors obey the same rules of natural selection as other living creatures. Practitioners today are beginning to use this knowledge.

19.04.2016