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.
23.11.2009In addition to compounds that increase the activity of norepinephrine, several other drugs are undergoing clinical trials involving patients with Down syndrome.
23.11.2009The 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.
23.11.2009In 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.
19.11.2009Biotechnology, 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.
19.11.2009Russian pharmaceuticals were dismembered, kept half-starved, and transferred from one resector to another... And now they are trying to conduct experiments on dismembered fragments of a once unified organism. Or on frankly dead material.
19.11.2009Big Pharma companies are able to allocate up to $500 million annually for research and development. Compare: $30 billion in the USA and 5 billion rubles in Russia.
19.11.2009Fifty 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.
19.11.2009Sunflower 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.
19.11.2009On the Nanometer website, registration for the Club of Participants of the Internet Olympiad in Nanotechnology has been opened, which is also the registration of participants of the IV Internet Olympiad in Nanotechnology.
19.11.2009Contact lenses reacting to ultraviolet radiation are made of a new polymer permeated with a complex network of nanochannel filled with photochromic dye.
18.11.2009Recent 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?
18.11.2009And 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!!!!!
18.11.2009Two 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...
17.11.2009Scientists 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.
17.11.2009It 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.
17.11.200943 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.
17.11.2009Clinical 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.
16.11.2009Organic electronic devices that completely decompose in the body can be used in the production of temporary medical implants and for targeted prolonged drug delivery.
16.11.2009The long-term negative effects on physiology and behavior of stress suffered in the early stages of life are based on changes in gene activity.
13.11.2009The "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.
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