France – the team of Pr Aubourg of the Saint-Vincent-of-Paul hospital of Paris succeeded in slowing down the evolution of a serious cerebral disease, the adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). This rare genetic disease affects the brain of the young children in good health.
The researchers used a combination of gene therapy and cell therapy to slow the progression of the disease in two children suffering from ALD. Nearly three years after the disease progression was slowed and no side effects were observed.
The ALD mainly affects boys between 5 and 12 years. A defective …

Scientists from the Institute of stem cells at the University of Connecticut offered to fight with colon cancer, as well as other types of cancer using a new vaccine, created on the basis of stem cells. Generally the cancer and stem cells has many similar molecular and biological traits.
The process of treatment will be as follows. After producing the vaccine using human stem cells, doctors will be able to deceive the immune system, which will think that the cancer cells are already present in the body, and starts the immune …

The Genentech laboratory, a subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche has published results of a clinical trial of a new experimental treatment against skin cancer. This would significantly reduce the advanced tumors.
The drug GDC-0449 blocks the protein “hedgehog” which promotes the growth of cancer cells. It was obtained through genetic modification on the CYCLOPAMINE contained in the plant Veratrum californicum. The CYCLOPAMINE inhibits and blocks the ability of renewal of the cancer stem cells.
The trial focused on thirty-three patients suffering from skin cancer. After taking the oral treatment, eighteen patients …

The team of Dr. Klatzmann of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris has discovered that in the early days of cancer development, the human immune system does not recognize these cells as cells to be eliminated, but as normal cells to be protect.
The premise of “the immunosurveillance” Cancer by the immune system has been an idea formulated by scientists a century back. Under this assumption, the immune system would be able to treat the cancer cells as abnormal and to eliminate them.
The Study by the team of Dr. …

The theory of Brownian motion goes back mainly to Albert Einstein and involves, in the case of the diffusion of particles, the famous bell curve of Gauss. A group of American researchers have recently discovered that Einstein’s theory did not work in some cases.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the assumption that the material was composed of atoms was not accepted by the entire scientific community. Some felt uncomfortable with these “metaphysics” so small we could not directly observe or verify their existence with a microscope and wanted to …