Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

A new vaccine against nicotine addiction

One dose of a new gene therapy vaccine for life relieves mice of nicotine addiction, turning their liver into a factory for the production of antibodies against nicotine.

29.06.2012
Biomedicine

Two vaccines for cocaine addiction

Cornell University researchers have developed two vaccines that use different mechanisms to stimulate the production of antibodies that block cocaine molecules before they enter the brain.

26.06.2012
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer virus hitchhiking

Hiding "on the back" of red blood cells, the virus is not destroyed by the immune system, affects only cancer cells and stimulates an immune attack on infected and uninfected tumor cells and metastases.

14.06.2012
Biomedicine

Cancer Treatment: Kill the Courier

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have synthesized a small peptide that replaces a protein with a command about unlimited division, preventing it from reaching the nucleus of a cancer cell.

13.06.2012
Biomedicine

Anti-influenza proteins

The proteins created with the help of computer modeling are combined with hemagglutinin located on the surface of influenza viruses, like a key with a lock, and their antiviral potential is no less effective than that of monoclonal antibodies.

07.06.2012
Biomedicine

DNA container for transporting miRNA

To deliver small interfering RNAs (miRNAs) that inhibit the synthesis of a certain protein to tumor cells, they were packed into nanocontainers created on the principle of DNA origami.

05.06.2012
Biomedicine

Supercomputer for biomedicine

The Laboratory of Supercomputer Technologies for Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Small-sized Structures I-SCALARE presented new research results in the field of bioinformatics and drug modeling.

31.05.2012
Biomedicine

Biomedicine in the "Scientific Cafe"

The first meeting within the framework of the Scientific Cafe project, which brought together more than 150 young specialists and leading students of Moscow universities, was devoted to biomedicine.

30.05.2012
Biomedicine

Plasminogen against diabetic foot

The drug based on the pro-inflammatory enzyme plasminogen is able to initiate and accelerate the healing of wounds and diabetic ulcers.

29.05.2012
Biomedicine

Not exactly personal medicine

A personal medicine designed for a specific person is a myth. Personalized medicine focuses not on one patient or even hundreds of patients, but on subpopulations.

17.05.2012
Biomedicine

How to incite T-lymphocytes on a tumor?

Modified T-cell receptors can selectively bind to tumor cells, marking them for destruction by T-lymphocytes, normally reacting to microorganisms, and not to cancer cells.

10.05.2012
Biomedicine

Epigenetics will detect breast cancer years before the onset of the disease

The authors of the technique hope that this is only the beginning of understanding the contribution of epigenetics to the development of breast cancer, and in the coming years they expect to find many more examples of the effect of gene modification on the risk of developing various diseases.

05.05.2012