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Innovation failure

A feature of the introduction of pharmaceutical innovations in Russia will be the emphasis on drugs with a new metabolism, new forms and methods of delivery of the active molecule to the diseased organ. However, today it is far from that.

01.12.2008
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Skin stem cells will help cure baldness

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found a way to obtain stem cells that can be used to combat baldness and to reduce the number of experiments on animals.

21.12.2016
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Alzheimer's Vaccine

The dementia vaccine has already been tested on cell cultures and mice. Human testing of the vaccine is expected to begin in the next two to three years.

14.07.2016
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Russian advanced therapy drugs

The opening of a research complex for the development of innovative medicines for advanced therapy based on the BIOCAD laboratory took place in St. Petersburg.

20.06.2016
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A cure for eye cancer has been found

Researchers from the University of Utah have developed a new method of treating types of malignant tumors that are difficult to treat, such as retinoblastoma, or eye cancer.

03.06.2016
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Getting fat by leaps and bounds

The prevalence of obesity in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has been growing for 5 years and now averages 10 cases per 1000 people.

21.07.2015
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Liquid crystals for DNA analysis

Liquid crystals can undergo changes in their organization in response to a slight change in the primary structure of DNA, including mutations at the level of one nitrogenous base.

01.07.2008
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Melanopsin will help to adjust the biological clock

The researchers created genetically modified mice with melanopsin-expressing cells sensitive to diphtheria toxin. Treatment of the retina of 8-week-old mice with this toxin did not affect their visual abilities at all, but completely deprived the biological clock of the animals of sensitivity to light.

17.06.2008
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The Mammoth Revival project is ready to start work

The International Center of Molecular Paleontology will open in September this year in Yakutsk. The center will conduct genetic studies of the found paleontological material, mainly mammoth cells.

20.08.2014
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RUSNANOPRIZE-2013: 5 finalists of the competition

The list of finalists of the RUSNANOPRIZE 2013 award in the direction of "Nanomaterials and surface modification" has been announced in Moscow. One of the five is Prof. Langer, developer of technologies for the use of nanoparticles in medicine.

03.10.2013
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Polymerase chain reaction in almost unreal time

The laboratory-on-a-chip, developed at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore, can perform PCR in raw DNA samples in real (and record-breaking) time.

13.05.2008
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Stroke treatment: stem cells are at least safe

The first phase of clinical trials proved the safety of injecting stem cells into the brain. But even if everything continues to go as well, cell therapy for stroke will enter clinical practice in at least five years.

20.09.2011
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Pfizer vandalized

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn will pay $2.3 billion for the illegal promotion of their drugs.

03.09.2009
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Personalized Lymphoma Vaccine

Usually, follicular lymphoma can be suppressed with chemotherapy, but after a year, relapses are characteristic of this type of cancer. Patients who received an immunostimulator and a foreign protein with their own marker lived without relapses for 44 months. This is a very significant achievement, since previously with follicular lymphoma it was not possible to increase either the duration of the relapse-free period or the survival rate.

01.06.2009
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OpenBio live

The OpenBio-2020 conference is being held in the Koltsovo Science city from October 27 to October 30. Everyone can join the event online.

27.10.2020