Biomedicine

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HIV vaccine development continues

At the conference on retroviral and opportunistic infections, scientists presented the results of clinical trials of a new therapeutic vaccine against HIV.

28.02.2017
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Malaria vaccine: the first success

An international team of scientists has successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials of a combined malaria vaccine. The results of the work are published in the journal Nature.

16.02.2017
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Unexpected side effect

American biologists accidentally discovered that a drug used to restore the immune system during cancer chemotherapy protects future spermatozoa from death.

14.02.2017
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Rabies virus and brain cancer

Researchers conducted a successful experiment on mice to use the ability of the rabies virus to overcome the blood-brain barrier to fight brain cancer.

13.02.2017
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Bacteria against cancer

Korean scientists have tested their method on animals and hope to start clinical studies of cancer therapy with genetically modified salmonella in a few years.

13.02.2017
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Blood test for the diagnosis of parkinsonism

The new test made it possible to distinguish Parkinson's disease from atypical Parkinsonism, including in the early stages, with the same accuracy as a painful analysis of cerebrospinal fluid.

10.02.2017
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From cancer and heart attack

A side effect of the antitumor drug being developed may lead to the appearance of a drug against heart failure as a result of a heart attack.

07.02.2017
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Zika virus vaccine tested on animals

In the experiment, one dose of an RNA vaccine developed by an international group of scientists provided mice and monkeys with long-term protection against infection with the virus.

06.02.2017
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Antitumor platelets

The new platelet delivery system for the destruction of micro-tumors remaining after surgery has been successfully tested on animals.

03.02.2017
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Cellular Special Forces

Scientists from the USA reprogrammed skin cells so that they could fight a brain tumor. The first successful experiment was conducted on laboratory mice.

02.02.2017
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Will melanoma medicine help with bladder cancer?

Pembrolizumab has proven effective already in the first clinical trials and has been approved for the treatment of melanoma. Now the possibilities of expanding the list of indications of the drug are being studied.

01.02.2017
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Hybrid antibodies against HIV

Researchers at Duke University and the Scripps Research Institute hope that broad-spectrum antibodies can help create a vaccine that protects against HIV.

01.02.2017
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Protect bones from metastases

The mechanism of metastatic bone damage in breast cancer can be blocked with the help of a RON protein inhibitor. The results of the Phase I tests look encouraging.

27.01.2017
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A new perspective in cancer treatment

A treatment strategy based on the natural mechanism of absorption of DNA fragments by cells can be applied to most cancerous tumors.

25.01.2017
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Chemotherapy

What we call chemotherapeutic drugs are substances that destroy cancer cells, or rather, these compounds destroy cell proliferation.

16.01.2017
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Possible basis for a new tuberculosis vaccine

It is not yet clear how the mice vaccinated with bio-drops will react to infection with "real" tuberculosis, which scientists plan to check in the near future.

16.01.2017