Two Ebola vaccines ready for trial
From the beginning of November, clinical trials of two of the most promising vaccines against the Ebola virus will begin in Switzerland.
22.10.2014From the beginning of November, clinical trials of two of the most promising vaccines against the Ebola virus will begin in Switzerland.
22.10.2014The financing attracted by the American company Aldea Pharmaceuticals will go to the organization of clinical trials of the drug AD-6626, designed to help patients with acute alcohol intoxication.
04.09.2014The results obtained indicate the fallacy of the generally accepted opinion about the weak toxicity of marijuana or even about its complete harmlessness. Despite the fact that moderate use may not cause significant neurotoxic effects, active daily smoking of marijuana can be toxic to brain tissue.
05.06.2008On April 23-26, the IX International Forum "The Older Generation" is being held at the Lenexpo exhibition complex in St. Petersburg.
23.04.2014Comparing the data from 1971 and 2003, scientists built computer models of social networks and marked smoking and non-smoking people with different icons on them, and found that people quit smoking in groups.
28.05.2008Visualization of the process of assembling a viral particle on the surface of an infected cell has become possible thanks to a new technique called full internal reflection microscopy.
27.05.2008The authors are very encouraged by the results obtained because prostate cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases.
26.05.2008The innovative mechanism of action of the experimental vaccine is aimed at the formation of specific antibodies to phosphorylated tau proteins, which are found in the brain in Alzheimer's disease.
15.01.2014Researchers from the University of Manchester received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the amount of 100 thousand dollars for the development of condoms using the "Nobel" material.
22.11.2013The operation took place in several stages. First, surgeons took tissue from the girl's hip and transplanted it just below the left shoulder. When the new skin grew, the doctors sewed it to the face.
25.10.2013Rowan University students use berry and fruit pigments to create solar panels.
14.05.2008In addition to reducing the time to stop bleeding, the new approach can improve the results of surgical interventions, especially when removing large tumors, when it takes a very long time to stop extensive diffuse bleeding by traditional methods.
14.05.2008The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced a competition for the implementation of experimental design work on the creation of a bioengineered liver. The maximum contract price is 518.5 million rubles.
15.02.2013The government of the Novosibirsk Region intends to send to the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia an application for about 780 million rubles for the creation of an innovative biopharmaceutical cluster in the Koltsovo science city near Novosibirsk.
17.04.2012Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Florida have proposed a new method for creating antibiotics, which consists in "inciting" one type of bacteria against another.
20.03.2008In an experiment on mice, a preventive vaccine against breast cancer demonstrated a pronounced preventive effect. Human trials of the drug are scheduled to begin no later than two years from now.
31.05.2010A point mutation in the COMT gene slows down the age-related decline of thinking abilities. Elderly people with a variant of the gene, in which one of the amino acids in the corresponding enzyme is replaced with methionine by valine, performed tests 33-45% better than the owners of the "methionine" variant.
04.05.2010The work on decoding the Russian genome took six months and cost less than similar projects carried out earlier abroad.
18.12.2009The drug Flibanserin (Flibanserin) was developed as an antidepressant, but it turned out to be ineffective in this capacity. But he had an unintended effect: an increase in sexual desire and the brightness of sexual sensations in women.
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