Is the use of stem cells in heart attack exaggerated?
Injecting patients with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow three or seven days after a myocardial infarction is, although safe, an ineffective method of treatment.
20.11.2012Injecting patients with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow three or seven days after a myocardial infarction is, although safe, an ineffective method of treatment.
20.11.2012The results of the clinical study showed that the introduction of "mini-cells" from the bacterial membrane is safe, well tolerated and even stabilizes the condition of patients with the last stages of incurable malignant tumors using traditional methods.
20.11.2012Scientists have managed to cure the paralysis of the hind legs in dogs by transplanting olfactory cells from their noses into their spinal cord. The study was the first in which cells were injected into truly sick animals, rather than laboratory subjects.
20.11.2012According to the head of the group of scientists, it seems that the new type of stem cells they have developed will finally turn regenerative medicine from a dream into a reality.
20.11.2012Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and the University of California at San Francisco have identified a pronounced relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres - the end sections of chromosomes.
20.11.2012Researchers are sure that from now on oxytocin can be considered a hormone of monogamy and marital fidelity.
19.11.2012Belarus and Russia will build a stem cell treatment clinic in Minsk. In addition to treatment, it is planned to organize joint production of stem cells.
19.11.2012The results of another study showed the possibility of therapeutic use of microscopic parasitic worm to normalize the composition of intestinal microflora in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.
19.11.2012The assumption that Parkinson's disease can be transmitted from neuron to neuron using the wrong spatial conformation of the alpha-synuclein protein was confirmed in healthy wild-type mice.
19.11.2012American geneticists have found out that a person is a "mosaic" of cells with different genomes. Approximately 30% of skin cells differ from each other in the number of copies of different DNA fragments; the same "genetic kaleidoscope" can be seen in other parts of the human body.
19.11.2012American scientists have proposed a new method for diagnosing aggressive brain tumors from blood samples.
19.11.2012The reason for writing a review of advanced oncotherapy methods was the fact that the FDA included trastuzumab, a new drug for the treatment of an aggressive form of breast cancer, in its list of priorities.
15.11.2012An international group of scientists has reported the identification of the second most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, after the APOE 4 gene, which more than triples the chances of the carrier of this mutation for the development of the disease.
15.11.2012Biologists from the University of California at Irvine have found that histone proteins, whose main function is the packaging of DNA in the nucleus of the cell, are able to suppress the vital activity of intracellular bacteria.
15.11.2012The Russian biotechnology company Nanolek will begin production of an inactivated polio vaccine under license from the Dutch company Bilthoven Biologicals.
15.11.2012Studying why the freshwater polyp hydra is immortal, scientists from the German city of Kiel unexpectedly discovered the connection of this phenomenon with the aging of the human body.
15.11.2012The Bortnik Foundation and Tekes announce the beginning of the third collection of proposals for joint projects in the field of applied research and innovation for Russian and Finnish small innovative companies.
14.11.2012Printing of matrices from living cells will facilitate new biochernils for an inkjet printer, allowing cells not to lose viability when printing and not to stick together in the printer nozzles.
13.11.2012The device developed at MTI pumps blood at a rate of 1 ml/h, 10 times faster than existing analogues, and catches 60-80% of cancer cells wandering in the blood. In the near future, the authors are going to increase the flow rate by 100 times.
13.11.2012In the venture capital market, the trend of investing in the field of healthcare is becoming more and more clearly traced. However, in Russia everything is still mostly limited to medical IT startups.
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