Biomedicine

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Biomedicine

Biomedicine 15 years ago and today

All technologies (and biomedical ones are no exception) go through the stage of discovery, increased expectations, often a decline, and then either implementation (and a more sober attitude to them), or oblivion if expectations were not met.

05.11.2015
Biomedicine

A recipe written in your genes

In recent years, Switzerland has been actively developing innovative medical technologies based on in-depth knowledge from the field of genetics and on the unique capabilities of modern computing systems.

05.11.2015
Biomedicine

Therapeutic HPV vaccine is ready for testing

The safety of a therapeutic vaccine to combat human papillomavirus strains of high oncogenic risk – HPV 16 and 18, will be tested during the first phase of clinical trials.

03.11.2015
Biomedicine

Herpes virus against melanoma

The US FDA has approved the genetically modified herpes virus Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) for the treatment of the last stages of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer.

02.11.2015
Biomedicine

Antitumor grenades with thermosensitive fuses

Doctors from Manchester have created an unusual "packaging" for anti-cancer drugs, which prevents them from killing healthy cells and at the same time works like a kind of "grenade" that reacts to heat.

02.11.2015
Biomedicine

Complex therapy in oncology

Immunotherapy is becoming one of the promising areas of the fight against cancer. An even greater effect is achieved in synergy with other methods.

29.10.2015
Biomedicine

From arthritis, cancer and alopecia

Scientists from Columbia University accidentally found out that blocking the activity of a certain enzyme with drugs for cancer and arthritis causes hair follicles to quickly come out of a state of rest and start hair growth.

27.10.2015
Biomedicine

Antitumor drug against parkinsonism and dementia

The effect of the drug on cognitive and motor activity was the most impressive. One of the previously wheelchair-bound patients started walking again, and the other three, who had previously lost the ability to talk, were able to maintain a dialogue.

22.10.2015
Biomedicine

Transcriptome test systems for cancer diagnosis

A new method of selecting test systems for personalized diagnosis of oncological diseases is presented by Russian scientists in a recent issue of the journal Scientific Reports.

21.10.2015
Biomedicine

Malaria vaccine has become a candidate for cancer drugs

Danish and Canadian biologists, studying the effect of the malaria vaccine on the body of pregnant women, accidentally discovered a promising property of this vaccine that can help in the fight against cancer.

19.10.2015
Biomedicine

AIDS: a single-chain full-length vaccine

One of the discoverers of the human immunodeficiency virus has started the first stage of clinical trials of an AIDS vaccine that provides protection against HIV for 15 years.

16.10.2015
Biomedicine

Vaccination against high cholesterol

A vaccine that selectively affects the PCSK9 molecule – a protein involved in cholesterol metabolism – is a cost-effective alternative to modern expensive drugs.

15.10.2015
Biomedicine

A new target for the development of male contraceptives

A group of Japanese physiologists and biochemists have learned to reduce sperm motility in male mice using immunosuppressants, "disabling" the motility of the middle part of the sperm (connecting the tail and head).

15.10.2015
Biomedicine

Injection instead of castration

If the DNA vaccine works on cats and dogs in the same way as on mice, then in the future developments can be used to create long-acting contraceptives for humans.

06.10.2015
Biomedicine

How a drug for Alzheimer's disease is being developed in Russia

The essence of the project "Targeted design, synthesis and research of the biological activity of multi–target compounds as innovative drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases" is to create multi-purpose drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease.

01.10.2015
Biomedicine

Pills for the mind (1)

What medications are known today to improve mental abilities and how effective are they?

23.09.2015
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease and resveratrol

The largest clinical study of resveratrol on subjects with Alzheimer's disease showed stabilization of the biomarker, which usually decreases with the progression of the disease.

16.09.2015