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Your health

What kind of disease is cancer? Part 4

Experts of the Atlas biomedical holding share information about screening, diagnosis and types of malignant tumors that can be detected at an early stage.

01.09.2017
Genetics

Alzheimer's and intelligence quotient

Scientists have found that a certain variation of the complex of genes involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease correlates with intellectual performance in childhood.

01.09.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Clinical case

In the future, gene therapy can save people from many diseases. In practice, the first important step has been taken: for the first time this method has been approved for use in oncology.

01.09.2017
Note to the businessman

How to beat old age

Ilya Popov, member of the industry working groups under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and Business Russia - on the prospects for the development of the biomedical technologies market.

01.09.2017
Other life sciences

How melanoma metastasizes

The cell growth factor midkin, secreted by melanoma, stimulates the growth of new lymphatic vessels and prepares niches for the formation of metastases.

01.09.2017
Biomedicine

Antibodies to repair the brain

Scientists from New York University have proposed a new approach to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: therapy with antibodies that prevent the adhesion of pathologically altered proteins.

01.09.2017
Other life sciences

Biochemistry of Happiness

The "recipe" for a happy life includes two components: positive emotions (and the absence of negative ones) and a sense of meaningfulness of what is happening in the world around us and with ourselves.

01.09.2017
Biomedicine

Cancer diagnosis by selfie

Researchers from the University of Washington have created a simple and accurate screening method for early stages of pancreatic cancer that does not require medical intervention.

31.08.2017
Biomedicine

Bacterial Ribosome Gag

The new antimicrobial peptide blocks the release of the synthesized protein from the ribosome, acting as a plug. In the microcin group, this is the first peptide with such a mechanism of action.

31.08.2017
Other life sciences

How to use intercellular mail

The therapeutic potential of vesicles – intercellular "parcels" – has already been evaluated in experiments in which damage to the kidneys, heart, liver and nervous tissue was simulated.

31.08.2017
Biomedicine

Humanity can win the War against Bacteria

The action of a fundamentally new hybrid antibiotic is directed against the membrane potential of bacteria, which provides pathogenic cells with energy.

31.08.2017
Biomedicine

Double capture

The bispecific antibody directs the T-lymphocyte only to the tumor cells against which its antigen-binding center is designed. The remaining actively dividing cells do not suffer at the same time.

31.08.2017
Biomedicine

Danio fish instead of mice

A group of scientists from Portugal for the first time demonstrated the possibility of using their fry to test various approaches to the treatment of malignant neoplasms.

31.08.2017
Nanotechnology

"Nanodrels" for drilling cancer cells

Exposure to ultraviolet light triggers the rotor, and it begins to rotate at a speed of 2-3 million revolutions per second, drilling through cell membranes and leaving open pores.

31.08.2017
Biomedicine

Well-forgotten old

Two new bacteriophages found by Russian scientists are capable of destroying antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause outbreaks of infection in medical institutions.

30.08.2017
Biomedicine

Who is warned is armed

Analysis of the tumor DNA circulating in the blood plasma detected recurrence of lung cancer long before they could be found using computed tomography.

30.08.2017
Prolonging youth

Bone cell hormone restored memory to old mice

An increase in the concentration of the hormone osteocalcin produced by bone cells in the blood reverses the process of age-related memory deterioration.

30.08.2017
Exhibitions and conferences

Invest in medicine!

On October 6, 2017, the I International Medical Investment Forum will be held at the Congress Center of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.

30.08.2017