Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Save the Brain: neuropeptides and stem cells

The Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is developing peptide compounds and methods of using stem cells for the prevention and treatment of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.

09.11.2009
Biomedicine

Innovative technologies in laboratory diagnostics

Modern diagnostics means not just the detection of the disease at an early stage, but rather the statement of the risk of a disease that has not yet begun. What is happening now in the so-called personalized and, let's pay attention, already practical medicine, impresses even professionals.

06.11.2009
Biomedicine

Vaccines based on virus–like particles - fast, effective, safe

Safe and effective vaccines, the active component of which are virus-like particles, due to the speed of manufacture, can solve the long-standing problem of the timely appearance of vaccines against rapidly mutating influenza virus.

23.10.2009
Biomedicine

Male contraception: just one shot

Most hormonal contraceptives are designed for women. The new contraceptive will be taken by men, and not in the form of pills, but in the form of injections twice a month.

06.10.2009
Biomedicine

Self-repair of the brain

The damaged part of the brain is not able to grow back. But the brain is sometimes able to transform existing tissue, forming unique structures and paving new neural pathways.

28.09.2009
Biomedicine

The near future of medicine: an optimistic scenario

In the next 20-30 years, telemedicine and robotics in healthcare, technologies for replacing human organs with artificial ones, effective methods of treating cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, personalized medicine and gene therapy will become the most widespread. Life expectancy will reach 100-120 years. But this is not the limit.

28.09.2009
Biomedicine

Protein clumping, dementia and death

One of the causes of motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and a number of other neurodegenerative diseases is the adhesion of protein molecules into globules that destroy neurons.

18.09.2009
Biomedicine

Cannabinoid Controversy

Receptors binding tetrahydrocannabinol – the active ingredient of marijuana – are a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, but conflicting data on their presence on neurons hinder the development of new drugs.

18.09.2009
Biomedicine

Fibroblasts will cure periodontal disease

With periodontal disease and periodontitis, gum tissue can break down and expose the roots of teeth. This process, called recession, is fraught with hypersensitivity of teeth to temperature and root caries, not to mention a purely cosmetic defect. Impressive results were shown by the method of non–surgical treatment of recession - the introduction of autologous (own) fibroblasts into the gum tissue.

31.08.2009
Biomedicine

The egg was first grown in a test tube

Doctors from the USA were able to grow a mature egg in the laboratory from ovarian tissues taken from a donor. The work may lead to a breakthrough in the field of reproductive technologies and infertility treatment.

16.07.2009
Biomedicine

Oncology: news from the front edge

This article is about the causes, patterns of development and ways of treating oncological diseases, as well as about the difficulties that oncologists face when developing new means and methods of cancer treatment.

13.07.2009
Biomedicine

Nanotransporters will deliver drugs to cancer cells

Many side effects of chemotherapy can be avoided if the drug is delivered purposefully only to cancer cells, to their nucleus. In this case, the effectiveness of the drug increases by several orders of magnitude. This effect can be achieved by using nanotransporters for drug delivery.

01.07.2009
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccines: incite the immune system against cancer cells

The idea of an oncovaccine is similar to an antimicrobial vaccine and is based on the fact that there are special carbohydrate molecules on cancer cells. With the help of vaccination, an immune protective reaction is triggered, aimed at cancer cells.

30.06.2009
Biomedicine

Bionanotechnology in the interests of man

The Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS held a conference "Chemical Biology – Fundamental problems of Bionanotechnology" on June 10-14.

18.06.2009