Biomedicine
Will gonorrhea come to an end?
A new method of treating gonorrhea not only successfully eliminates the disease, but also prevents re-infection, turning the causative agent of the disease into a vaccine.
23.09.2013- English version
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How to distinguish a viral infection from a bacterial one
Scientists have developed a test that captures the genetic markers of any viral infection in the blood. This will allow you to distinguish it from bacterial and not take unnecessary antibiotics.
20.09.2013
Biomedicine
The effectiveness of vinblastine was increased by orders of magnitude
A new chemical approach makes it possible to increase the effectiveness of one of the most successful anti–cancer drugs – vinblastine - by 10-200 times while overcoming the problem of drug resistance.
20.09.2013
Biomedicine
How to kill tumor-supporting macrophages
The new strategy makes it possible to slow down tumor growth and increase life expectancy by selectively destroying macrophages that suppress the body's response to cancer.
19.09.2013
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The prognosis of breast cancer recurrence is the best of the existing ones
The breast cancer index, based on an assessment of the expression levels of seven tumor-specific genes, is recognized as the most accurate method for determining the risk of recurrence of breast cancer.
18.09.2013
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Treatment of hypertension can cause breast cancer
Long-term use of some antihypertensive drugs, in particular, calcium channel blockers, is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
18.09.2013
Biomedicine
Antidiabetic drug can cure Alzheimer's disease
The drug liraglutide, used to treat diabetes mellitus, is able to restore memory loss and clear the brain of beta-amyloid aggregates even in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease.
17.09.2013
Biomedicine
A new approach to cancer treatment is blocking the interaction between cells
A new experimental approach to cancer treatment is to block the "negotiations" between malignant cells that stimulate tumor growth.
16.09.2013
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Experimental drug against macular dystrophy
The MDM2 protein inhibitor causes degradation of abnormal retinal vessels, leading to loss of vision in the wet form of macular dystrophy.
16.09.2013
Biomedicine
Compounds for the treatment of Parkinson's disease already exist
One of the drugs already undergoing clinical trials to protect healthy cells in the treatment of cancer, not only protects dopamine-producing neurons from death, but also prevents the manifestation of behavioral abnormalities in Parkinsonian mice.
13.09.2013
Biomedicine
Metformin instead of Viagra?
It is possible that the common antidiabetic drug metformin will serve as a cheap and effective means of erectile dysfunction therapy in the future.
11.09.2013
Biomedicine
Diabetes diagnosis: early, fast, accurate
A group of German researchers, together with colleagues from the USA and Finland, proposed a technique that allows, based on a blood test, to diagnose type 1 diabetes long before the disease manifested itself.
11.09.2013
Biomedicine
How new cancer drugs are being created
Alessandro Riva, Head of the Novartis Global Cancer Research and Medical Activities Department, on the development of new treatments for complex forms of cancer.
10.09.2013
Biomedicine
Leptin instead of insulin?
Swiss researchers conducted a series of experiments on rodents deprived of the ability to synthesize insulin, which were injected with leptin, a hormone that regulates energy metabolism and appetite. Thanks to leptin, all animals perfectly tolerated the state of insulin deficiency.
10.09.2013
Biomedicine
Will the medicine "from the liver" help with Parkinson's disease?
The drug used to treat liver diseases improves the functioning of the mitochondria of neurons and shows great promise as a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
10.09.2013
Biomedicine
Cancer biomarkers – autoantibodies
This article describes one of the types of biomarkers that have recently been actively developed for the early diagnosis of cancer – biomarkers based on autoantibodies.
09.09.2013
Biomedicine
Synthetic RNA will protect against the consequences of a heart attack
A new method of treating a heart attack is injection into the damaged areas of the heart of a modified synthetic matrix RNA encoding vascular growth factor, which is much slower than natural, is destroyed in the body.
09.09.2013
Biomedicine
Cancer treatment: hydrogel is more effective than a "pure" drug
The taxol hydrogels obtained by the improved technique, injected directly into the tumor, demonstrated greater effectiveness compared to four times the dosage of the same drug when administered intravenously.
04.09.2013
Biomedicine
Doping for lazy people
Under the influence of the drug SR9009, mice exhibit effects that are usually the result of intensive and systematic sports: rodents lose weight, their muscle volume and strength increase, they become able to run longer distances...
04.09.2013
Biomedicine
Flu shot: do no harm!
An experiment on piglets showed that vaccination against one strain of influenza can worsen the course of the disease caused by another strain of the virus.
04.09.2013