Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Biomedical projects in RUSNANO

Targeted delivery of the active substance directly to the focus of the disease will greatly increase the effectiveness of the drug.

04.12.2008
Biomedicine

The big role of small RNAs

Small, or non-coding, RNAs do not carry information about the structure of the protein, but are associated with the most important processes in the life of both the cell and the whole organism. Knowledge about the role of small RNAs in the transmission of hereditary information and in the development of cancerous tumors will help to move faster from the first model experiments to applied medical research.

03.12.2008
Biomedicine

Telomerase activation: new data on the "youth enzyme"

Mice obtained as a result of crossing two genetically modified lines – resistant to cancer and producing 10 times the normal telomerase level in epithelial tissue, life expectancy was 1.5 times longer than in normal mice. Telomerase synthesis can also be activated with the help of small molecules, but the "elixir of youth" is still far away.

03.12.2008
Biomedicine

microRNAs tightened the scars on the heart

Antagonists of microRNA-21, which stimulates the growth of fibroblasts, may be a promising treatment for heart attack, heart failure, interstitial fibrosis and other diseases associated with the replacement of damaged cells with connective tissue.

01.12.2008
Biomedicine

Clinical pharmacogenetics: a promising tool for personalized medicine

Currently, the number of publications devoted to clinical pharmacogenetics is growing like a snowball. The use of such technologies in clinical practice is the basis of personalized medicine. However, pharmacogenetic testing is rarely used in real clinical practice.

27.11.2008
Biomedicine

Problems of implementation of pharmacogenomics achievements

Pharmacogenetic research has been developing very intensively over the past 50 years. Nevertheless, the achievements of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics are being introduced into practice extremely slowly. Moreover, this problem is relevant all over the world.

26.11.2008
Biomedicine

What is the biotechnological boom of pharmacy?

In our biotechnological age, the study of the genome has allowed us to gain knowledge in the field of biological causes of various pathologies. Pharmacy is not left out of this biotechnological and genetic boom.

25.11.2008
Biomedicine

Cocktail for little roommates

Developed more than thirty years ago, a special solution for the recovery of patients after surgery later found registration in toxicology, and in the light of new knowledge about the symbiosis of humans and bacteria proved to be in demand in the treatment of a number of diseases.

19.11.2008
Biomedicine

Biomedicine News

Neurons from the stem cells of the tooth pulp; what is the difference between the brain of old people with a clear mind; an experimental drug based on "anti-microRNA" to protect the heart.

19.11.2008
Biomedicine

On the gene grounds

Medical genetics is developing so rapidly that applied medicine simply cannot keep up with it: treating doctors and geneticists almost do not cooperate, and it is generally unclear whether society is ready for such revelations.

14.11.2008
Biomedicine

Telomeres and HIV infection

Telomerase genes also work in killer lymphocytes, which are also required to multiply rapidly in order to perform their tasks. However, the hunt for hidden immunodeficiency viruses turns out to be so long that these genes gradually stop turning on. Perhaps TAT2 or other, more powerful telomerase activators will solve the problem

12.11.2008
Biomedicine

Mutant killers take orders

A little blood is taken from the patient's vein, all T-killers are isolated from this blood, then a gene encoding a mutant receptor protein is inserted into their DNA in an active form, cells are multiplied in culture and injected back into the patient. According to some indicators, the winning mutant surpassed its progenitor by more than 100 times.

10.11.2008
Biomedicine

Autoantibodies will help predict brain diseases

With the help of molecular blood testing, stroke can be predicted and prevented. Scientists used for this purpose the "scavengers" of the human body – autoantibodies that help get rid of proteins that have worked out their own.

05.11.2008
Biomedicine

Express diagnosis of acute coronary events

Rapid diagnosis of cardiomarkers in myocardial infarction and other acute coronary events improves diagnosis, increases the effectiveness of therapy and reduces the number of complications, hospitalization time and treatment costs.

01.11.2008
Biomedicine

Postgenomic biotechnologies

The pharmaceutical industry development program assumes that about 200 domestic medicines should be created by 2020. Several dozen of them should be innovative means of a new generation. The creation of such drugs is the main task of the Department of Postgenomic Biotechnologies of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

28.10.2008
Biomedicine

On the way to diabetes treatment

New candidates for clinical research as a means of treating diabetes: epigallocatechin-3-gallate, an antioxidant that is part of green tea, and alpha-1 antitrypsin, a protein that is produced by liver tissue.

27.10.2008
Biomedicine

Hydrogen sulfide does not press

Smelly hydrogen sulfide has an unexpected and very useful function – this gas helps the body to expand blood vessels. A previously unknown regulatory mechanism promises the emergence of a whole class of new drugs to combat high blood pressure.

24.10.2008