Donor cells against macular degeneration
Japanese doctors are planning to start tissue transplantation operations from donor stem cells in 2017 for patients with severe retinal disease – macular degeneration
07.06.2016Japanese doctors are planning to start tissue transplantation operations from donor stem cells in 2017 for patients with severe retinal disease – macular degeneration
07.06.2016The speech of the Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation Kirill Kaem at the meeting of the Federation Council was devoted to the topic "Innovative trends in healthcare technologies".
21.04.2016The ban will be lifted not only from posthumous donation, but also from those HIV-infected people who are willing to donate their organs to save someone's life.
01.04.2016Japanese scientists claim that artificial ears can be grown to order and transplanted to a person in the next five years. They recently grew a human auricle on the back of a rat.
28.01.2016The WHO Director-General called on world leaders and medical professionals to adopt the recommendations of the report in order to ensure healthy aging for their population.
01.10.2015So far, only visitors of the section "Industrial and Food Biotechnology in the 21st century" of the International Biotechnological Symposium "Bio-Asia – 2015" have been able to evaluate the fantastic developments of students and scientists of AltSU. It's a pity you weren't there...
17.09.2015Reducing the caloric content of the human diet by 300-500 kilocalories per day reduces the synthesis of triiodothyronine, which leads to a slowdown in metabolism and, accordingly, tissue aging.
09.07.2008The world's first candidate for a head transplant, Valery Spiridonov, was approached by a large private investor. He intends to invest about $100 million in a unique operation planned for 2017.
21.08.2015The Chinese doctors do not disclose the details of the therapy, noting only that they acted "by an experimental method on the bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract."
23.07.2015During James Watson's visit to the Russian Academy of Sciences, a ceremony will be held to return him the Nobel medal for the discovery of the DNA double helix, which was bought at auction by the famous philanthropist Alisher Usmanov.
16.06.2015The authors found that skin keratin serves as a barrier between Langerhans cells and HIV and prevents infection. As part of the study, they applied estriol cream, which has been the standard treatment for post-menopausal vaginal atrophy for more than 30 years, to the inner surface of the foreskin and assessed the level of keratinization of the region using contact smears.
06.06.2008The main areas of research: impaired tissue regeneration in injuries, cardiovascular diseases, blood diseases, chronic limb ischemia and diabetes mellitus.
04.06.2008Russia rose by eight lines at once compared to last year's ranking of the happiest countries in the world, taking 68th place out of 150.
10.09.2013On average, only 20% of participants in the first and second phases of clinical trials of HIV vaccines in Africa are women, although their share among carriers of the virus is much higher. In addition, women with HIV have a higher viral load.
17.09.2012The Savelovsky court of Moscow granted the claim of the psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky to the chief psychiatrist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation V. Shamrey and the VGTRK TV company. Shamrey claimed that Kashpirovsky was harming a significant number of people and understood this.
15.06.2011An express test for AIDS based on a saliva sample has gone on sale in China, with the help of which people can independently check themselves for the presence of an immunodeficiency virus.
11.05.2011The enzyme pyruvate kinase has two varieties, but only one of them – PKM2 – provides rapid glucose consumption by cancer cells.
17.03.2008Patients with one of the varieties of macular degeneration, Stargardt's disease, will become the second group in the world to receive stem cells from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization.
22.11.2010American doctors have begun human trials of a method for treating spinal cord injuries using human embryonic stem cells.
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