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Good News about Blood Cancer Treatment

Some patients went into complete remission, some had partial improvement. If we consider that classical medicine with its chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation could no longer help these people, then this is an amazing result.

12.12.2013
Biomedicine

Caries prevention: eat candy!

The amount of Streptococcus mutans, one of the main "corroders" of tooth enamel, fell in the oral cavity of volunteers who ate several sweets daily with Lactobacillus ragasei bacteria killed by heating.

04.12.2013
Biomedicine

The end of the AIDS pandemic?

The newly developed synthetic molecules inhibit the release of HIV genetic material from the nucleus of an infected cell into the cytoplasm, thus, virus replication is blocked and avoids infection of other cells.

04.12.2013
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Four-fold increase in the effectiveness of glioblastoma treatment

Half of the participants in the second phase of clinical trials of the experimental method of immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme lived more than five years after diagnosis, which is four times higher than the average with standard therapy.

26.11.2013
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Anticancer microflora

Two groups of researchers simultaneously published articles showing that the presence or absence of the "right" bacteria in the intestine affects the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapy.

25.11.2013
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A new era in oncology

At the European Cancer Congress, discoveries and developments in the field of immunotherapy were called a new era in oncology. However, targeted therapy, which became a revolution 15 years ago, also continues to develop rapidly.

25.11.2013
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A wounded oncogene

Researchers from California managed to do what scientists have not been able to do for the last 30 years: identify an inhibitor of the mutant oncogene K-Ras, which is most involved in malignant processes and has a reputation for invulnerability to pharmacotherapy.

22.11.2013
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A heart surgeon to himself

A specialist in boilers and pipes suffering from Marfan syndrome gave a curious idea to cardiac surgeons. As a result, he survived himself and helped others.

21.11.2013
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When will a healthy person have a heart attack or stroke?

The risk scale, developed by American cardiologists, quite accurately determines from a conventional clinical blood test how long a person will live before fatal problems with the heart and blood vessels.

21.11.2013
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Micro-RNAs, omnipresent and omnipotent

In 2001, microRNA was recognized as the "molecule of the year" by the journal Science. For 12 years, the number of publications on this topic has exceeded one million.

07.11.2013
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Hepatitis C: victory is close

In the course of phase 2 clinical trials of hepatitis C treatment methods with various combinations of drugs, one hundred percent cure of patients was achieved.

06.11.2013
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Melanoma: early diagnosis by blood test

Scientists from the University of Dundee (UK) have developed a unique test to detect the development of melanoma from a blood sample, which will allow diagnosing the disease at an early stage, and in the future – to develop new methods of treatment.

05.11.2013
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Fecal therapy: unappetizing, but effective

Under the pressure of doctors, the US Food and Drug Administration officially allowed doctors to transplant fecal microflora to patients with recurrent intestinal infection caused by clostridium.

05.11.2013
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Bacteriophages in medicine

All creatures living on earth have microscopic parasites – viruses. And bacteria have their own viruses – bacteriophages, translated from Greek – "bacteria eaters".

01.11.2013
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Will monoclonal antibodies help in the treatment of AIDS?

Human broad-spectrum antibodies against HIV reduce the concentration of the virus in the blood to an indistinguishable level. This effect is observed by science for the first time – however, so far only in experiments on monkeys.

01.11.2013