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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
Nanotechnology

Double blow to the tumor

A combination of two well–known cancer treatment methods – immunotherapy with antibodies and thermophototherapy with gold "nanostars" - was successfully tested on a mouse model.

30.08.2017
Biomedicine

Vitamin C against leukemia

The authors of the work are going to conduct experiments not on a mouse model, but with real cases of leukemia, and find out what other types of blood cancers vitamin C can work against.

30.08.2017
Other life sciences

How to control the brain from a distance

With the help of a remote magnetic field, you can turn on and off different zones in the brain, but for this, however, the brain itself needs to be slightly modified and magnetic nanoparticles introduced into it.

30.08.2017
Prolonging youth

SENS: Where are we now?

One of the authors of this article had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Aubrey de Gray and ask him one of the most important questions about SENS: where are we now?

30.08.2017
Biomedicine

The Apocalypse is canceled

The main saviors of human civilization today and even more so tomorrow are small six–legged animals, rummaging through garbage and carrion.

29.08.2017
Other life sciences

Microbots in the stomach

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have successfully tested micro-motors to protect and release drugs in the stomach.

29.08.2017
Biomedicine

A heart attack without a scar on the heart

After testing carbacycline on mice with myocardial infarction, the scientists noted that PPARδ stimulation improves cardiac function and minimizes scar tissue formation.

29.08.2017
Various

Be simpler!

The De-Jargonizer program divides words into three frequency groups and uses a simple formula to calculate how much the text can be understood by a wide audience.

29.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists have managed to test the new method so far only on cell lines, but the results look promising from the point of view of therapy of still incurable diseases.

29.08.2017