Friday, December 20, 2013

Science: a major scientific breakthrough in 2013 made oncologists - BFM.Ru

In its annual list of major scientific breakthroughs Science magazine in the first place situated immunotherapy, a relatively new method of treating cancer.

assumption that used to fight cancer patient can own immunity, made long ago, but technical solutions until 2013 was not. Now proven performance of two methods. One of them involves the specific inhibition of the receptor, inhibit the immune system. Without this interference, it can attack the tumor. Other acts on the T-cells of the immune system. They are extracted from the body, modified to fight cancer and injected back.

However, except for immunotherapy, Science has allocated much more breakthrough research. Among them, the most interesting studies of the brain. For example, researchers from the U.S. stated that the answer to the question of what a person’s sleep. According to them, during sleep the brain from harmful substances are washed out. And Australian scientists were able to grow artificial human brain tissue. However, not secured properly powered (artificial blood supply they did not have), died of brain tissue, reaching the size of apple seed.

day earlier, on December 19, the journal Nature published his list, though not the most breakthrough discoveries, and the most prominent scientists. In this section are some of the authors and tagged Science studies, and even one Russian, employee UrFU astronomer Viktor Grokhovsky. In accordance with its trajectory calculations Chelyabinsk meteorite he went on an expedition to the desired area and managed to find a piece of a celestial body weight of 570 kg and 5.5 kg of its fragments.

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