Gastrectomy as a way to prevent stomach cancer
The sisters, who had an 80% chance of stomach cancer as a result of a rare mutation, chose not to live in constant fear, but to go for surgery.
11.12.2009The sisters, who had an 80% chance of stomach cancer as a result of a rare mutation, chose not to live in constant fear, but to go for surgery.
11.12.2009After the introduction of genetically modified lymphocytes to mice with arthritis in the foci of rheumatoid inflammation, a decrease in the number of T-helpers and destructive processes of bone tissue, i.e., a decrease in the autoimmune reaction, was observed.
03.12.2009A fragment of the maxillary bone, which is part of the temporomandibular joint, was grown in a bioreactor from bone marrow stem cells, which were seeded onto a frame that copies the shape of the corresponding bone of the patient.
12.10.2009As scientists from Columbia University have shown, one of the anti-cancer drugs related to deacetylase inhibitors improves memory in experimental mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
15.09.2009More than half of Russian innovative entrepreneurs do not trust the activities of state innovation structures and venture funds with state participation.
14.09.2009All the crystal structures created so far from DNA were two-dimensional. The authors of the new work managed to turn flat triangles into three-dimensional structures up to 1 mm in size.
07.09.2009"Most studies of the effect of alcohol on health eventually produce a two–horned curve – that is, the risk is increased for people who do not drink at all and for alcoholics, and for people who drink alcohol moderately, it decreases," comments William Thies, head of the scientific and medical department of the Alzheimer's Association.
15.07.2009The first ever fully cured HIV patient, American Timothy Ray Brown, died from a recurrence of blood cancer.
28.09.2020Every fifth small biotech company in Europe may be on the verge of bankruptcy in 2009 due to the termination of financing amid the global credit crisis.
17.03.2009The sperm donor agreed to fertilize no more than five women, but in fact he had at least 17 children.
03.10.2019With age, spermatozoa accumulate mutations and show a tendency to aneuploidy – an abnormal number of chromosomes.
01.11.2017Giving way to elderly people in transport, we actually harm their health, according to a group of British scientists.
20.10.2017The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for 2017 was awarded to D.Hall, M.Rozbash and M.Yang for their research on circadian rhythms.
02.10.2017Applications for the Moscow Government Awards for Young scientists for 2016 have been accepted in the capital. The number of participants in the selection was one and a half times higher than last year.
10.11.2016The technology will be used in medicine, primarily to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, as well as for the selective destruction of cancer cells and wound healing.
12.10.2016The levels of the biomarker of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease – the protein ADNP (activity-dependent neuroprotective protein) – can be easily tracked using a routine blood test.
16.02.2016In his opinion, pharmaceutical companies (he knows this for certain from somewhere), religious societies and, possibly, foreign organizations are trying to disrupt the vaccination of the population against influenza.
16.10.2015Of those born in 2015 37% of girls and 27% of boys will suffer from dementia in the future. The number of cases may be higher, because in their calculations, the researchers did not take into account cases of dementia starting before the age of 60.
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