This was reported by Ukrinform with reference to the Times of Israel.

“Israeli nanotechnologies can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy,” the report says.

It should be noted that the invention with precise dosing ensures that the drug is delivered only to the affected cells and not to the whole body. Side effects from the drug reaching other parts of the body can be significantly reduced. Inhibitory drugs have already been tested on laboratory mice.

“The new nanocarrier actually allowed us to successfully treat mice with a drug that would not normally be used because of its strong side effects,” the researchers said.

The team from Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) believes the technology could revive many treatments considered dangerous and allow doctors to increase the doses of some existing drugs.

As reported by Ukrinform, a group of scientists from the UK and the USA have created artificial mouse embryos in the laboratory from which brain, neural chain and heart tissue develop.

To create artificial embryos, or “embryoids,” the scientists took three types of stem cells from a mouse embryo that would go on to form all the tissues a normally growing embryo would need. They then transferred the cells into a specially designed culture medium, a spinning nutrient bottle, where stem cells spontaneously continue to form embryos.

The embryos developed in just eight and a half days, nearly half the normal gestation period for a mouse, during which time they developed a brain, neural circuit, and a beating heart.

Photo: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Getty Images