Regenerative medicine accelerates the cure

The regenerative medicine It is a concept that for many older people may seem fiction, but is currently a specialty in many universities around the world. Regenerative medicine has as its purpose...

New compound to combat meningitis

Researchers from the United States and Italy discovered a substance that could offer protection against more than 300 strains of the bacteria Neisseria meningitidiso (Meningococcus B), which causes...

New light in research on metabolic syndrome

A group of university students discovered an unsuspected connection between the "energy currency"Of the cells (a molecule called ATP), and insulin resistance, the basis of the metabolic syndrome,...

New technology helps detect coronary heart disease

When an individual is suspected of having coronary artery disease (CAD), standard tests of diagnosis are the CT scans to visualize the arterial flow and the activity of the heart.Scientists in U.S...

Ozone therapy to eliminate pain naturally

The medical ozone was first used during the First World War for the cleaning Y disinfection of wounds. However, due to its aggressive and corrosive nature, especially when it came into contact with...

New strategy to fight cancer

Currently, the diagnosis of cancer is done through a pattern recognition in the mass or counting of blood abnormal. There are no molecular tests, there is not a series of genetic sequences that...

New technologies for people in wheelchairs

Can you imagine being able to put on a suit that provides you with superpowers? This question was asked Eythor Bender, with the vision that some day an apparatus will manage to provide greater...

Papilla created by students of the IPN

Given the lack of options in the market, in December 2009, students from the IPN designed a nutritious porridge for older adults. The substance is rich in calcium, proteins and antioxidants, in...

Parkinson's and Alzheimer's patients with new hope

The study carried out by the universities of Glasgow and Southamptonin the United Kingdom they created the first plastic surface with "nanopatterns", it is covered with tiny pits, which helps the...

Nitric oxide slows the reaction of snake venom

In some regions of our country, specifically in the rural zones, the bites of snakes They are very common. Unfortunately, timely attention is not always possible and the victims die hopelessly This...

Award Prince of Asturias Award to a Mexican scientist

A team of neurobiologists in which the Mexican neurosurgeon participates Arturo Álvarez Buylla, has been distinguished with Prince of Asturias Awards of Scientific and Technical Research. As at the...

Oxygen hyperbaric therapy in full development

The hyperbaric oxygenation consists of administering oxygen at high pressure with therapeutic purpose. Its emergence and development are linked to compression and decompression methods, used as a...

Organs made to order

It sounds like science fiction, but it is not. The Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid has just presented the first laboratory in the world specialized in manufacture of bioartificial organs and...

Body painting in medical classrooms

The use of body painting technique and others technological resources, emerge as an alternative to the complex process that exists worldwide for the use and conservation of corpses in order to be...

Hip and knee prosthesis in the ISSSTE

By increasing life expectancy, joint problems Degenerative (osteoarthritis) manifestations occur most frequently in the joints of the hip and knee, accompanied by pain, limitation in the moves Y...

Prostheses to eliminate tremors in the body

"We have managed to develop a neuroprosthetics that is able to identify if the person is trembling or not and if he wants to execute voluntary movements or not, in which case, through functional...

Tailored organs for transplant

It sounds like science and fiction, but it is not. The Gregorio Marañón Hospital de Madrid has the first laboratory in the world specialized in the manufacture of organs Y bioartificial tissues,...

Black plague could be the mother of pandemics

Between 1347 and 135, the Black Death or bubonic (infection transmitted by fleas) spread rapidly throughout Europe, killing around 50 million people. A study published in the magazine Nature,...

New generation prosthesis with biomaterials

To overcome an amputation is FABIO, a Spanish project that works in the development of biomaterials and fast manufacturing techniques to get new ones custom prostheses, ranging from the knowledge of...

Aging process reproduced in the laboratory

The magazine 'Nature' informs of the success in the generation of pluripotent stem cells induced (iPS cells) from skin cells obtained from patients with the syndrome progeria Hutchinson-Gilford,...