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Biomedicine

Two-stage immunotherapy for ovarian cancer

The results of the first phase of two-stage personalized ovarian cancer immunotherapy have demonstrated not only the safety and good tolerability of therapy, but also positive clinical results.

04.02.2013
Your health

Deceptive body Mass index

The body mass index can give a person a general idea of how much he should weigh, but this formula is very far from reality. It can be used in the study of large populations, but not in relation to individuals.

04.02.2013
Various

How many years do we really live?

Minus sleep, work, sitting on the Internet and the toilet, etc., the average American has only 9 years out of 78 left for life itself.

04.02.2013
Your health

Myths about obesity

Seven common beliefs about being overweight and obese, including that sex helps burn calories, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and snacking contributes to obesity, are just myths.

04.02.2013
Your health

Better forty times at a time…

Small two- to three-minute physical activity sessions, totaling 30 minutes a day, can be as good for health as a long trip to the gym.

01.02.2013
Innovative Russia

Funding for trials of the Russian melanoma vaccine has been stopped

Sergey Kiselyov, Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Genetic Foundations of Cellular Technologies at the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Medical News about the process of developing a therapeutic vaccine against melanoma (skin cancer) and the results of its testing.

01.02.2013
Prolonging youth

SIRT3 is a potential source of longevity

Overexpression of the SIRT3 gene rejuvenates hematopoietic stem cells of an aging organism by increasing the efficiency of the antioxidant defense system.

01.02.2013
Other life sciences

Hairpin for Alzheimer's

UCLA researchers have discovered a unique hairpin structure on a certain fragment of the toxic form of beta-amyloid, facilitating its adhesion. It may turn out to be the most relevant target for the creation of drugs against Alzheimer's disease.

01.02.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in heart attack: shining to others, I burn myself

The introduction of specialized cardiac stem cells promotes the restoration of the heart muscle after a heart attack by stimulating the division of preserved cardiomyocytes and attracting the patient's stem cells to the injury zone. At the same time, the transplanted cells die quickly.

31.01.2013
Biomedicine

Smoky lungs are not dangerous during transplantation

Life expectancy after transplantation and indicators of respiratory function in patients who received the lungs of a smoker and those who received the organs of non-smokers practically do not differ.

31.01.2013
Genetic engineering

Insect virus vs. influenza virus

A new type of flu vaccine, in the production of which neither the virus itself nor chicken eggs are used, will soon appear on the American market. The main feature of this vaccine is that when it is created, an insect virus and recombinant DNA are used.

31.01.2013
Other life sciences

Bioinformatics is useful and "useless"

What is useful bioinformatics and what is interesting about "useless" bioinformatics, why one should not be afraid of GMOs and how one can study the cell as a whole, in his lecture on "Gazeta.Ru" says Professor Mikhail Gelfand.

31.01.2013
Biomedicine

Antisense therapy: the first swallow

According to the forecasts of experts of the analytical company Cowen & Co, 2013 may become the year of "antisense technologies" due to the large number of promising experimental drugs at the stage of clinical trials.

31.01.2013
Other life sciences

Skin aging: the main culprit is grabbed by the hand

The decrease in CD98hc protein synthesis observed in old mice confirms its role in tissue preservation, hair follicle cycle and skin healing, which are disrupted with age.

31.01.2013