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Biomedicine

Medications for Down syndrome?

In addition to compounds that increase the activity of norepinephrine, several other drugs are undergoing clinical trials involving patients with Down syndrome.

23.11.2009
Biomedicine

Scientific scandal hinders the development of new flu drugs

The dispute about the mechanism of action of anti-influenza drugs led to the fact that the authors of two different hypotheses stopped talking to each other. The lack of consensus may slow down the development of new flu treatments.

23.11.2009
Other life sciences

Bioinformatics is not a science

In recent decades, many new sciences with fashionable names have appeared: bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, systems biology... But in fact, bioinformatics is not a science, but a set of technologies and tasks that are solved with their help.

19.11.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Features of national biotechnology

Biotechnology, in comparison with two other areas of the innovation economy – information and nanotechnology – seems to be much more difficult to "raise" in Russia due to some national characteristics.

19.11.2009
Your health

Is it possible to resurrect the Russian pharmaceutical industry? Part 1

Fifty of the most prominent Russian pharmaceutical companies (including joint ventures with foreign firms) together account for 0.284% of the global market. This is at the level of a single company Kyowa Hakko Kirin, which closes the Top-50 list of the global pharmaceutical industry.

19.11.2009
Your health

Cholesterol demon

Sunflower oil producers helpfully write on the label "Does not contain cholesterol". You might as well write "Does not contain salt" on a pack of sugar.

19.11.2009
Nanotechnology

Contact lenses-chameleons

Contact lenses reacting to ultraviolet radiation are made of a new polymer permeated with a complex network of nanochannel filled with photochromic dye.

18.11.2009
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy: successes, difficulties, prospects

Recent advances in the field of gene therapy indicate that decades of scientific research have not been in vain and the victory of man over incurable genetic diseases is not far off. What to expect in the near future?

18.11.2009
Healthy skepticism

Complete and final victory over swine flu!

And over other infectious and parasitic diseases! The joint development of Russian teachers and doctors is certified as a medical equipment product, put into production after 5 years of testing!! A new A/H1N1 virus program has been introduced into the device!!! On sale today!!!!!

18.11.2009
Controversial

Do you want to become young and healthy again? Retire!

Two new studies contradict the generally accepted opinion about the deterioration of health and well-being after retirement. It turns out that pensioners lose sleep problems, and people in retirement get younger by 10 years. But this is in Scandinavia...

17.11.2009
Biomedicine

Amyloid plaques can be removed from neurons

Scientists have managed to remove beta-amyloid crystals from the brains of experimental animals with Alzheimer's disease, the accumulation of which in nerve cells is the cause of the development of the disease.

17.11.2009
Genetic engineering

Chicken eggs with human protein

It is possible to obtain human proteins in chicken eggs without creating genetically modified chickens: it is enough to infect eggs with a harmless virus with a built-in gene of the desired protein.

17.11.2009
Your health

Medicines from the "black lists"

43 drugs were included in the "black lists" of potentially dangerous medicines. According to the FDA, we are not talking about the proven harmful properties of these drugs, but about problematic cases from clinical practice.

17.11.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cell breasts: not long to wait

Clinical studies of the technique of restoring almost natural breasts from patients' own stem cells will begin in the spring. In about three years, the technique can be introduced into clinical practice.

16.11.2009
Other life sciences

Microchips, soluble without sediment

Organic electronic devices that completely decompose in the body can be used in the production of temporary medical implants and for targeted prolonged drug delivery.

16.11.2009
Theories of aging

Are "runaway" proteins another cause of aging?

The "leakage" of some proteins from mitochondria damaged by free radicals is detrimental to cells, which manifests itself in the form of hearing loss and other age-related diseases. By acting on these proteins, scientists hope to overcome senile ailments.

13.11.2009