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Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (8)

Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have a "light at the end of the tunnel" – large international clinical studies have demonstrated the ability of two new drugs to slow the progression of the disease.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (7)

The use of new contactless autonomous heart rate drivers avoids surgical interventions, as well as physical activity restrictions and complications associated with traditional pacemakers.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (6)

Blocking certain surface proteins with the help of a new class of drugs – immune checkpoint inhibitors – "releases" T-lymphocytes, which begin to actively destroy cancer cells.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (5)

Antibody-drug conjugates will become an important component of antitumor therapy in the near future, providing selective delivery of highly toxic agents to tumor cells without harm to healthy tissues.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (4)

The use of new drugs of the PCSK9 inhibitor class makes it possible to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood to unprecedented low values: by 50-60% when used individually and by 75% when used in combination with statins.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (3)

A fundamentally new approach to laboratory diagnostics will allow for lower costs to obtain better information necessary for early detection of the disease and timely adoption of necessary measures.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (2)

Despite the moderate effectiveness of the first experimental vaccine against dengue fever, its use can significantly reduce the burden on healthcare, as well as reduce human suffering and increase their productivity.

11.12.2014

Other life sciences

Top 10 Medical Innovations according to the Cleveland Clinic (1)

Thanks to the work of reanimobiles equipped with everything necessary for emergency diagnosis of stroke, patients receive the necessary treatment in the shortest possible time, which in many cases helps them to fully recover.

11.12.2014

Healthy skepticism

Russian sausage against Western sanctions

Scientists of the laboratory "Food Biotechnology and BAS" of the Astrakhan Technical University have contributed their five kopecks to the fight against the next economic crisis. Sausage makers of all countries, tremble – the Russians are coming!

11.12.2014

Nanotechnology

"Three-dimensional nanovaccine" will help in the fight against cancer

Strictly speaking, this is not really a vaccine, since nanopalochki and signaling molecules act here, and not neutralized microorganisms or their antigens. However, even in this case, immunity is activated against a specific "violator".

10.12.2014

Your health

Let's hit the health of the population with import substitution!

If legislators and officials really intend to replace foreign medicines with domestic ones in such a short (three-year) period, the consequences may be unpredictable.

10.12.2014

Other life sciences

Robots in medicine

Judging by the number of developments and the interest of various scientific groups, it can be argued that the creation of micro- and nanorobots has become the main direction in medical robotics.

10.12.2014

Various

A scientific journal instead of a school one

Two Moscow schoolgirls have become co-authors of an article published in the prestigious scientific journal PLOS ONE. The article was the result of their scientific work carried out at the summer School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology.

10.12.2014

Various

Public procurement should stimulate innovation in medicine

At a conference organized by Skolkovo, Russian and Canadian experts in the field of biomedicine discussed the role of public procurement in supplying medical institutions with high-tech drugs.

10.12.2014

Other life sciences

Open innovations for medicine

Experts spoke about how to bring innovations to the mass market at the Open Innovation Talks "Robotics in Medicine" and the round table "Treatment at a Distance: New opportunities for telemedicine" within the framework of the Open Innovations Forum.

10.12.2014

Other life sciences

Distributed computing has helped to find a new cure for dengue fever

Scientists who attracted the computing power of volunteers from all over the world, after years of research, found a very promising medicinal substance to combat a dangerous tropical disease – dengue fever.

09.12.2014

Note to the businessman

Financing and commercialization of scientific developments

Expert opinions on what problems scientists face when bringing their developments to market.

09.12.2014

Various

Enlightenment to the masses – in any way, even in this way

The resource "Breasts for Science" has been launched in the Italian blogosphere. As part of this project, the girls post their photos (in underwear or without it) accompanied by a sign where a certain scientific fact is reported.

09.12.2014

Biomedicine

The growth and metastasis of tumors suppresses the inhibitor of autotaxin

In the new approach to the fight against cancer, the enzyme autotaxin is used as a pharmacological target – the culprit of the "vicious circle" of tumor growth, metastasis and resistance to treatment.

08.12.2014

Other life sciences

The growth of nerve fibers is stimulated by sigma-peptide

The compound, called intracellular sigma peptide by researchers, allowed activating the function of muscles paralyzed after spinal cord injury in more than 80% of experimental animals.

08.12.2014