Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Atherosclerosis vaccine

Good news for patients who are not helped by existing cholesterol-lowering methods: injections of antibodies binding to "bad" cholesterol molecules showed good results in a trial on healthy volunteers.

16.11.2011
Biomedicine

Losing weight without dieting: a directed fat burner

An experimental drug that selectively destroys blood vessels that feed fat cells allowed obese macaques to lose up to 11% of their weight and up to 27% of fat reserves in the abdominal area in 4 weeks.

15.11.2011
Biomedicine

Monoclonal antibodies against psoriasis

The drug Stelara (ustekinumab), which is 100% monoclonal human antibodies, opens a new class of drugs for the treatment of psoriasis.

10.11.2011
Biomedicine

Get tested for the papilloma virus? Easy!

Two existing tests detect human papillomavirus with a sufficiently high sensitivity – 84 and 91%. In addition, all the women who tried the test for self-conducting called this method simple and easy.

25.10.2011
Biomedicine

Testosterone and life expectancy: no link found

Testosterone levels do not affect life expectancy. Moreover, we do not know anything about whether it does not lead to premature death itself if you start taking it in the hope of improving the heart.

24.10.2011
Biomedicine

Pros and cons of monoclonal antibody therapy

According to the authors of the article, monoclonal antibody therapy, despite its commercial attractiveness, is not a promising direction for long-term treatment.

05.10.2011
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Acne Vaccine

Sanofi Pasteur has signed a contract with the University of California, San Diego to develop a vaccine for the prevention and treatment of acne, also known as acne or acne rash.

28.09.2011
Biomedicine

A virus trained to search for and destroy cancer cells

A few weeks after a single injection of the JX-594 virus culture to patients with metastatic cancer, half of the participants in the experiment had the tumor stopped growing, and one even decreased in size.

02.09.2011
Biomedicine

A pill for blood pressure... and senile senility

The primary results of a clinical study of the drug guanfacine, originally intended for the treatment of hypertension, showed that no reduces the symptoms of senile disorders of short-term memory.

29.07.2011
Biomedicine

A vaccine against heroin addiction has been created

In response to the introduction of the "dynamic vaccine", antibodies against heroin and its derivatives began to be synthesized in the body. As a result, four out of seven experimental drug addicts voluntarily and without additional treatment refused heroin.

22.07.2011
Biomedicine

Are you afraid of Alzheimer's? Chew grape seeds!

After treatment of mice with an Alzheimer's disease model with polyphenols isolated from grape seeds, the content of the beta-amyloid peptide oligomer in their brains decreased significantly.

18.07.2011
Biomedicine

Hands off beta cells!

The introduction of the CCL22 protein gene into the beta cells of the pancreas of mice with a model of diabetes stops the autoimmune reaction and protects the subjects from type 1 diabetes.

11.07.2011
Biomedicine

The pancreas is the source of diabetes medication

Gamma-aminobutyric acid, synthesized by beta cells of the pancreas, not only prevents the development of type 1 diabetes, but also cures this disease in mice. The next step is clinical research, on volunteers.

30.06.2011
Biomedicine

Genome Editors

Scientists have cured hemophilia (so far – in mice) using the genome editing method – a new step in the development of gene therapy.

29.06.2011
Biomedicine

Anti-wrinkle medicine from the customer's material

The cell drug laViv, developed by the American company Fibrocell Science, became the first anti-wrinkle drug approved by the FDA. The drug is made for a specific customer from his own fibroblasts.

24.06.2011