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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.

Age and sense of smell

Aging olfactory neurons lose the selectivity of responding to different stimuli. In other words, with age, a person's ability to distinguish different smells from each other deteriorates.

Prostatitis for "dummies"

There are a lot of pseudo-medical speculations and struggle-intensive myths around prostatitis, which are primarily associated with misconceptions about the causes of this disease.

Live to be 150 years old

Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Shabalin talks about pills against old age, home cancer prevention and technical immortality.

Monoclonal antibodies against psoriasis

The drug Stelara (ustekinumab), which is 100% monoclonal human antibodies, opens a new class of drugs for the treatment of psoriasis.

Diabetes is a blow to the brain

Numerous complications of diabetes, such as kidney disease, trophic ulcers on the legs and vision problems, are well known. However, it turned out that this disease also has a detrimental effect on the human brain.

New old

Compared to their peers who lived 30 years ago, modern old people have sex more often, divorce more often, demonstrate more outstanding mental abilities and, in general, feel better.

Unhealthy Health Law

The Federation Council approved the law "On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation", which caused a lot of complaints from patients and professional communities.