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Molecular 'wedge' disrupts bacteria's defense against antibiotics

Scientists have identified a new class of molecules that prevent bacteria from turning on a defense mechanism

Mechanism that stimulates brain self-healing after stroke discovered

Researchers have identified a molecular pathway that stimulates damaged cells to self-repair after ischemic stroke

The Rosnanomedicine Project

The parties will join efforts to organize the practical use of nanotechnology in medicine – to create new medicines, methods of treatment and prevention of diseases. In particular, Rosnanotech Group and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences plan to cooperate in conducting research and development in healthcare based on nanotechnology and their commercialization.

Pharmacogenetics has reached Yakutia

The program being developed at NEFU will automatically issue conclusions based on the entered results of pharmacogenetic testing of 21 drugs of 11 pharmacological groups.

Ebola Drug proved effective for monkeys

During the study, it was found that the AVI-7537 drug from Sarepta Therapeutics Inc helps 75% of macaques infected with an almost lethal dose of ebolavirus survive.

The FDA took on the producers of fake dietary supplements "from cancer"

The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put an end to the trade in dietary supplements, creams and teas allegedly intended for the prevention and treatment of cancer.

A vegan should be in jail!

A 12-year-old Scottish woman, put on a strict vegetarian diet by her parents, was hospitalized with a severe bone development disorder. Her spine is similar to the spine of an 80-year-old old woman. This is not the first case. For example, last year in the United States, a vegetarian couple was sentenced to life imprisonment for bringing their six-week-old child to starvation.

For the first time in Russia

For the first time, Russian transplantologists managed to perform cadaveric liver transplantation in two patients. In general, the posthumous donor saved the lives of six incurable people: in addition to the liver, the heart and lungs were transplanted, as well as two kidneys of the deceased.

Grandmothers, don't jump with a parachute!

Laverna Everett from California, succumbing to the provocations of her friends, decided to celebrate her 80th birthday in an original way and jump with a parachute. Both the birthday girl and the instructor remained alive, but they did not recover quickly :)

How to activate the antitumor activity of T-lymphocytes

Probiotics against kidney stones

Excess vitamin E may increase the risk of lung cancer

Matadors are not being cloned yet…

The immune system from embryonic stem cells

an acceptable alternative.

The innovative economy is growing, especially in the field of biomedicine

Companies engaged in developments in the field of biotechnology and medicine received the most investments ($1.5 billion, 41%). Software developers are in second place in terms of the number of funds raised. But this is in the USA...

Bioprinting in orbit

Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, previously trained to work with a bioprinter, began an experiment on printing living tissues on December 4.

Don't chase expensive pills!

Branded drugs can cost several dollars per pill, while generic drugs cost only a few cents. In terms of effectiveness, no difference was found between them, at least in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Argus has earned

Cyber vision, according to experts, is one of the ways to give people deprived of this natural gift of nature to start living a normal life again.

Doctors gave the woman her sight back without surgery

A 45-year-old woman turned to Balashikha Hospital with complaints of rapid loss of vision as a result of a domestic injury

The incidence of coronavirus in Russia has increased by more than 30% in a week

It is noted that an increase in the number of hospitalizations was recorded in 56 subjects of the Russian Federation, and the disease incidence itself is increasing in 72 regions