Science and Health News

In mouse models and patient cells, anti-CD98 antibody disrupts interactions between leukemia cells and surrounding blood vessels, inhibiting cancer’s growth

Russian Venture Company (RVC), Russia’s national fund of funds for innovation, has recently set up three joint funds with the Skolkovo Foundation that manages this country’s most widely touted innovation hub under construction just outside Moscow, and is now investing more than $70m in these, Firrma.ru reported.

Russian venture company and ITMO University have published results of monitoring of the efficiency of innovative activity in 40 leading Russian universities. Educational institutions have been estimated by 3 main criteria: development of innovative-enterprise environment, the transfer of technologies, influence at the outside social-economic environment.

How has the idea to create a separate Engineering physical institute of biomedicine appeared?

Austrian researchers have developed an affordable smart garment worn over prosthetic feet and ankles that provides sensation to amputees through vibrations. We can expect to see more smart garments for amputees and the team is already working on making a version for hands.

A Yale-led research team used a new gene editing strategy to correct mutations that cause thalassemia, a form of anemia. Their gene editing technique provided corrections to the mutations and alleviated the disease in mice, the researchers said. The finding could lead to studies of a similar gene therapy to treat people with inherited blood disorders.

Neutrophils eject DNA nets to trap invaders but can be commandeered by cancer cells to help cancers spread; the process is experimentally overcome in mice

Scientists from McGill University and INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier in Canada recently released a novel investigation showing that cranberry extract successfully interrupted the communication between bacteria associated with problematic and pervasive infections.