More attention to rare diseases
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies have begun to pay more attention to the development of drugs for the treatment of rare and orphan diseases.
18.01.2013Pharmaceutical and biotech companies have begun to pay more attention to the development of drugs for the treatment of rare and orphan diseases.
18.01.2013This will not be "in vitro fertilization from three parents." Replacing mitochondria with defective genes can be compared to replacing a laptop battery that does not affect the information on the hard disk.
21.04.2011The income of the Rusnano design companies from the sale of nanotechnology products in 2012 should reach about $ 1 billion, the head of the state corporation Anatoly Chubais said.
11.02.2011The American biotech company Genzyme has announced the sale of its genetic research division to Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings.
14.09.2010The Board of Experts of the Ministry of Health of Japan has approved clinical trials of induced pluripotent stem cells.
01.07.2010First, the boy was transplanted small parts of donor bones, which became the foundation of future cheekbones. Then, stem cells taken from the patient's own fatty tissues were injected into the holes drilled in the allografts.
14.10.2009The All-Russian Information Center on Rare Diseases and Medicines- "orphans" (orphan drugs) has been opened in St. Petersburg. A rare disease is considered to occur less often than in 5 people per 10,000.
28.09.2009"During the training, these dogs have shown that they can detect drugs better than ordinary bloodhounds," said a customs officer at Incheon Airport, where three of the six bloodhounds were assigned to serve.
20.07.2009An original filter capable of purifying the patient's blood from microorganisms can save thousands of people every year.
23.06.2009In an experiment on rats, a peptide hormone recently discovered in the centers of the brain that control appetite turned out to be significantly more effective than existing weight loss drugs.
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