Biomedicine

Biomedicine

An important step to victory over atherosclerosis

An experimental drug that blocks the synthesis of one of the lipids of the cell wall normalizes all stages of cholesterol metabolism and prevents the development of atherosclerosis even in the presence of a pronounced predisposition.

25.04.2014

Biomedicine

New antitumor vaccine shows great promise

The first clinical study demonstrated the efficacy and safety of a new antitumor vaccine that causes the formation of immunity through exposure to dendritic cells.

21.04.2014

Biomedicine

Measles medicine successfully tested on ferrets

Currently, there are no drugs for the specific treatment of measles. The first antiviral anti-measles drug developed by an international group of scientists has shown good results when tested on an animal model.

18.04.2014

Biomedicine

Neutrophils will help to identify asthma

Neutrophils of asthma sufferers move slower than their "colleagues" from healthy people. The speed of their movement can become a characteristic for a simple and accurate way to diagnose asthma.

18.04.2014

Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: a new drug candidate

An international team of scientists has shown that caffeine is able to restrain the development of complexes of excessively phosphorylated tau proteins, the presence of which is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

11.04.2014

Biomedicine

Achievements of antitumor immunotherapy

Unlike chemo- and radiotherapy, immunotherapeutic agents stimulate the body's own immune mechanisms, enhancing its ability to fight tumors.

09.04.2014

Biomedicine

Heart attack treatment: targeted delivery of dangerous enzyme inhibitors

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have created a hydrogel that works directly in damaged heart tissue. Potentially dangerous enzymes break down this gel, releasing enzyme inhibitors contained in it.

04.04.2014

Biomedicine

Swedish scientists have created a new cancer treatment strategy

Researchers have discovered the protein MTH1, which helps cancer cells to protect themselves from oxidative stress. They suggested using MTH1 inhibitors, which suppress its activity and deprive cancer cells of protection.

03.04.2014

Biomedicine

A new anti-cancer drug is 10 times more effective than cisplatin

Researchers from the University of Warwick have developed an anti-cancer drug based on complex compounds of iridium, the effectiveness of which, according to the creators, is ten times higher than platinum derivatives.

27.03.2014

Biomedicine

Artificial protein will cure pneumonia and meningitis

A synthetic, highly polymerized version of the protein with the discordant name properdin, even in small doses, provides a cure for pneumonia and meningitis in mice.

26.03.2014

Biomedicine

Will another antidiabetic drug help with Alzheimer's disease?

The antidiabetic drug pramlintide reduces the number of beta-amyloid plaques in brain tissue and improves the ability to learn and remember in two experimental models of Alzheimer's disease.

25.03.2014

Biomedicine

Antisense microRNAs will help in the treatment of heart failure

American scientists have deciphered how a small fragment of RNA – microRNA-25 – contributes to the progression of heart failure, and have shown that by blocking microRNA-25 antisense RNA, this process can be slowed down.

20.03.2014

Biomedicine

How Antidiabetic Drugs Kill Tumors

Antidiabetic drugs of the biguanide class, causing an excessive load on the mitochondria, lead to the death of tumor cells in which there are disorders in glucose transport and mutations of mitochondrial DNA.

19.03.2014

Biomedicine

Liquid biopsy

Today, cancer diagnosis requires analysis of a sample of altered tissue – a biopsy. However, scientists are working on a "liquid biopsy" – analysis of tumor DNA in the blood.

18.03.2014

Biomedicine

Asplatin against cisplatin-resistant tumors

The binding of cisplatin to the aspirin fragment may contribute to antitumor therapy, which can also cope with those cells that are resistant to the action of cisplatin.

17.03.2014

Biomedicine

Virus and antibodies – together against the tumor

The effectiveness of antitumor immunotherapy can be significantly improved by combining it with therapy with oncolytic viruses.

17.03.2014

Biomedicine

Fecal therapy has been started in Novosibirsk

For the first time in Russia, the Center for New Medical Technologies of the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to use a newly appeared method of therapy – fecal transplantation

14.03.2014

Biomedicine

Progress in stroke treatment?

Consisting of five amino acids, the peptide increases the time required to combat the effects of an ischemic stroke to four hours from the moment the artery is blocked.

13.03.2014

Biomedicine

Blood test predicts risk of Alzheimer's disease

For the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, it is proposed to use lipids of the membrane of nerve cells, which after the death of neurons enter the blood. By changing their blood levels, future cognitive impairments can be predicted.

12.03.2014

Biomedicine

The cure for senile sclerosis

Some forms of age-related memory disorders can be cured with gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor blockers.

12.03.2014