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Biosensor for early diagnosis of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases

The sensor allows you to identify various protein aggregates in a sample of cerebrospinal fluid, which makes it possible to diagnose Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases in the early stages.

Alzheimer's vaccine: looking for volunteers

Georgetown University Medical Center is recruiting patients with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease to conduct a clinical trial of a vaccine against this disease.

The production of "Giamatrix" has begun

The Russian innovative development – bio-skin "Hyamatrix" (Hyamatrix) is designed to protect and effectively repair defects of the skin and mucous membranes (burns, injuries, trophic ulcers, etc.).

Donor hepatocytes instead of liver transplantation

Six months ago, Iyad Said was almost on the verge of death – his liver almost stopped functioning. The boy underwent the world's first operation to transplant donor liver cells, and now his life is not in danger.

Gold nanorods will help burn out the tumor

The method of introducing more than 2 million gold nanorods into one cancer cell is a crucial step towards developing a method of destroying tumors by local heating.

Older means wiser: new data on brain aging

At the annual congress of the American Society of Neuroscience, new data are presented that not only clarify some of the mechanisms of brain aging, but also provide information that will help older people retain their mental abilities.

Who can not pay income tax?

The last barrier before the exemption of medical and educational organizations from income tax has been removed.

Instead of bioreactors and injections – genetically modified capillaries

Injections of drugs based on recombinant proteins can be replaced with blood vessels grown from genetically modified cells of the patient, which will independently secrete the drug into the blood.

Exactly in a blood clot: nanoparticles with plasminogen activator

Such nanoparticles destroy blood clots many times more effectively than a tissue plasminogen activator in its pure form, and the probability of internal bleeding is much lower.

Embryonic stem cells are too expensive

Geron company stops clinical research and other work related to embryonic stem cells for financial reasons.

Atherosclerosis vaccine

Good news for patients who are not helped by existing cholesterol-lowering methods: injections of antibodies binding to "bad" cholesterol molecules showed good results in a trial on healthy volunteers.

Let's grow eyelashes on a bald spot. Expensive

The developer of a drug that stimulates the growth of eyelashes will test the effectiveness of the drug for baldness.

A hamburger worth its weight in gold

The media again recalled the plans of British (tm) scientists to feed humanity with "meat from a test tube". A hamburger with such meat will cost a quarter of a million euros, and this is not the only obstacle to the creation of artificial meat.

An unexpected source of pluripotent stem cells

Australian scientists who found stem cells in female breast milk 4 years ago have shown that they, like embryonic cells, can differentiate into any tissue of the body.

For old people, the morning of the evening is not more complicated

Young people who slept well after training made mistakes when re-performing the task much less often than after half a day of wakefulness. Elderly subjects made the same number of mistakes both after sleep and after waking.

Losing weight without dieting: a directed fat burner

An experimental drug that selectively destroys blood vessels that feed fat cells allowed obese macaques to lose up to 11% of their weight and up to 27% of fat reserves in the abdominal area in 4 weeks.

Erythrocytes "from a test tube": like real ones, only more expensive

France conducted the world's first successful test on volunteers of the properties of erythrocytes grown from stem cells.

Hormesis, cell death and aging

The phenomenon of hormesis may explain the ability of autophagy inducers, such as resveratrol and a low-calorie diet, to increase life expectancy.

Hormesis, cell death and aging: literature

How to become healthy, strong and hardy?

Disabling the synthesis of just one protein in muscle cells made it possible to create super mice – muscular cold-resistant marathon runners, and the absence of the same protein in adipose tissue protected animals from diabetes.