Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

Pacemaker from patient cells

American scientists, using a single gene, reprogrammed ordinary heart cells into cells that generate electrical impulses. Perhaps this technique will someday allow patients to transplant their own reprogrammed cells instead of pacemakers.

19.12.2012
Other life sciences

Digital Medicine

About the international conference "Healthcare and Technology 2012: Transformation of Opportunities" and what digital medicine is.

19.12.2012
Nanotechnology

Terminator T-1000 from DNA

The new material created by Cornell University researchers is a bit like the T-1000 Terminator: it can flow like a liquid and then return to its original form.

18.12.2012
Other life sciences

Wealth and longevity: double inequality

The average life expectancy is growing all over the world, but the dynamics of the "cost" of an additional year of life depends on per capita income. Of course, health and longevity are more expensive in poor countries than in rich ones.

18.12.2012
Other life sciences

Supercomputers for biomedicine and pharmacology

Intel and MIPT have summed up the results of the three-year work of the laboratory of supercomputer technologies for biomedicine, pharmacology and small structures I-SCALARE (Intel super computer applications laboratory for advanced research).

17.12.2012
Genetics

Delayed-action genes

A healthy person is a carrier of approximately 400 genetic variants that pose a potential threat to health, and 2 variants directly associated with diseases.

17.12.2012
Biomedicine

Fill the wound in the stomach with foam

The foam is formed by two liquid polymers, which, as a result of interaction, expand and solidify after being injected into the abdominal cavity. The survival rate with foam three hours after the start of bleeding increased from 8 to 72%.

14.12.2012
Other life sciences

A heart in a backpack

Specialists of the Ronald Reagan Medical Center performed a procedure for removing a patient affected by heart disease with temporary replacement with a completely artificial SynCardia heart.

14.12.2012
Biomedicine

Mircludex B against hepatitis B

The company "Hepatera" begins conducting a clinical trial of the Ib-IIa phase of the drug Mircludex B, intended for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis B.

13.12.2012
Other life sciences

How will we live without antibiotics?

The appearance of antibiotics in the forties of the last century revolutionized medicine. But modern microbiologists fear that this revolution is coming to an end.

13.12.2012
Other life sciences

Cancer cells age due to lack of dNTP

The aging process of cancer cells is associated with DNA damage due to a decrease in deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) reserves caused by a decrease in the number of enzymes involved in its biosynthesis.

12.12.2012
Biomedicine

Blood Cancer Treatment: Let lymphocytes kill each other

The method of reprogramming the patient's T-lymphocytes so that their target is cancer B-lymphocytes can revolutionize the approach to the treatment of leukemia and other types of blood cancers. In addition, it opens up prospects for the treatment of malignant neoplasms of other organs.

12.12.2012
Biomedicine

Prostaglandin E2 accelerates bone marrow recovery

The introduction of prostaglandin E2 accelerates the restoration of hematopoiesis in the bone marrow affected by chemotherapy and /or radiotherapy, not only by suppressing apoptosis of hematopoietic cells, but also by restoring their microenvironment.

12.12.2012
Other life sciences

Injection film from Fujifilm

Animal studies have shown that in most cases, the effect of injecting vaccines with an injection film is higher than with traditional methods. Fujifilm is going to conduct clinical trials of a new method with the involvement of human volunteers.

11.12.2012