Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Prostate cancer, get drunk on poison!

"Smart" nanoparticles are able not only to distinguish between cancer and healthy prostate cells with absolute reliability, but also to penetrate into tumor cells, delivering the drug exactly to the target.

12.01.2012
Biomedicine

Vaccine against autoimmune diseases

Biologists from the Weizmann Institute forced the immune system of animals to fight the disease associated with errors in the work of this system itself. For the virtuoso deception of the body, the authors used synthetic substances that imitate natural ones.

27.12.2011
Biomedicine

Treatment of burns: dextran hydrogel

The developers intended to supplement this material with stem cells and growth factors, but found that even without this, dextran hydrogel perfectly stimulates skin growth at the burn site.

19.12.2011
Biomedicine

Antibodies against diabetes and obesity

Specialists from Genetech have created antibodies that activate brown adipose tissue, which helps to burn fat and normalize blood sugar levels. The only side effect: the experimental mice lost 10% weight.

19.12.2011
Biomedicine

Stop Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists at the Salk Institute have synthesized a drug that prevents the progression of Alzheimer's disease. And Finnish researchers hope that within the next 3 years their method of early detection of this disease will be put into practice.

16.12.2011
Biomedicine

The fight against oncogenes: a way around

The oncogenic Myc protein has no binding sites with which compounds with medicinal properties could interact. American researchers have chosen a different approach – disabling not the oncogene itself, but its helper genes.

15.12.2011
Biomedicine

High-capacity cancer vaccine

American scientists have managed to create a vaccine that, thanks to the activation of all three components of the immune system, provokes a very powerful immune response and is able to reduce the tumor size by 80% in mice with cancer.

13.12.2011
Biomedicine

Brain tumor will be cured by viruses

The world's first clinical trials of a new method of treating a brain tumor – glioblastoma – using parvoviruses have begun at the German Cancer Center in Heidelberg.

07.12.2011
Biomedicine

Double blow to cancer: 2-deoxyglucose + Navitoclax

2-deoxyglucose deprives cancer cells of a protein that disables the mechanism of cellular suicide. These cells can be finished off with the help of the drug Navitoclax, which suppresses the activity of two intracellular inhibitors of apoptosis.

06.12.2011
Biomedicine

A gift for AIDS Day

The DNA of antibodies effective against most forms of HIV is sewn into the DNA of muscle cells, and muscle cells begin to synthesize these antibodies, ignoring mutations that change the appearance of the virus.

01.12.2011
Biomedicine

Goodbye, caries?

A combined vaccine against caries, consisting of DNA and protein from two different bacteria, has performed well in preclinical trials.

30.11.2011
Biomedicine

Everything you want to know about biomedicine...

To readers' questions BFM.ru Igor Goryanin, Executive Director of the cluster of biological and medical technologies of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, is responsible.

24.11.2011
Biomedicine

Chewing and losing weight

The principal part of the work can be considered completed: one of the "satiety hormones", peptide YY, combined with a molecule of vitamin B12, penetrates well into the bloodstream from the oral cavity. Developing chewing gum for those who want to lose weight is a matter of technique.

24.11.2011
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's vaccine: looking for volunteers

Georgetown University Medical Center is recruiting patients with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease to conduct a clinical trial of a vaccine against this disease.

18.11.2011