Sinovac: Covid-19 vaccine works on monkeys

Researchers at Sinovac Biotech, a private company based in Beijing, administered two different doses of their coronavirus vaccine to 8 rhesus macaques. 3 weeks later, the team introduced SARS-CoV-2 into the lungs of the monkeys, and none developed a full-blown infection.

The conservation time of a liver to be transplanted has been tripled

A team of scientists has greatly extended the time window in which a liver transplant can be stored while waiting to reach a patient. By modifying a protocol needed to preserve rodent livers, scientists observed results so promising that they were tested on a human liver for transplant. A donor liver had an average "life" of 9 hours, the new method brings this time to 27 hours. A lot more time to organize… Read more

The new anticancer drug that destroys metastases

Cancer is no longer as scary as it used to be, because many people recover from this disease and also because research is making giant strides, including Italian research, to try to defeat the pathology with new technologies. In recent news, for example, a new drug composed of nanoparticles capable of directly penetrating the metastases caused by breast cancer in organs such as the lungs and liver has been developed, destroying them completely. For now, the new… Read more