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Both Faster and Stronger

09.09.2024

Cancer, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A new Weizmann Institute approach promises to advance cancer immunotherapy; it increases the proliferation rate of cancer-targeting immune cells...

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Peeling Back the Layers of Brain Tumors

29.08.2024

Brain & Behavior, Cancer

Weizmann scientists have mapped common types of brain tumors at unprecedented resolution – and identified a possible reason why some patients fail to...

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Sticking a Pin in Cancer

12.07.2024

Structural Biology, Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A new cellular mechanism for identifying unraveled proteins may serve as a target for cancer therapies

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A Sweet New MRI Method “Lights Up” Pancreatic Cancer

23.06.2024

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Altered glucose digested by cancer cells helps reveal tumors’ hiding places

Combat team: A dendritic cell (right) and a T cell, both from a mouse with skin cancer, combined using the BiCE antibody (yellow)

Standing United: When Immune Cells Join Forces, Cancer Therapy Is More Effective

18.01.2024

Cancer, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A new kind of immunotherapy, based on crosstalk between different immune cells, could pave the way for innovative treatments of cancer and autoimmune...

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Dumpster Diving in Cancer Tissue Uncovers an Immune Evasion Mechanism

20.09.2023

Cancer, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology

Cancer alters cellular waste-processing machinery, helping it avoid detection by the immune system

Human lung cancer cells harboring the L858R mutation in the EGFR gene. Cell nuclei are in blue. The red color marks a protein that is present in the cell cytoplasm when the EGFR is active and driving the uncontrolled cell divisions

A Select Group: Study May Bring Improved Therapy to Preselected Lung Cancer Patients

08.08.2023

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute researchers identify a biomarker that may one day enable a subgroup of lung cancer patients to benefit from relapse-free treatment

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Why Do Cancer Patients Lose So Much Weight?

08.05.2023

Cancer, Nutrition, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Wasting syndrome – a deadly cancer side-effect – might be diagnosed and treated early on, according to a new study

Tissue sample of a particularly aggressive skin cancer reveals immune cells (yellow) that express on their surfaces a “brake pedal” receptor called FcgIIb (purple); cell nuclei are in blue

Immunotherapy Drugs Step on the Gas

05.03.2023

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Sometimes anticancer antibodies press on the gas and the brakes at the same time. New research might help them accelerate better

Collagen fibers deposited by fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment, viewed under a microscope. The fibers form an orderly pattern in tumors with an unmutated BRCA gene (top); in contrast, in tumors of patients harboring BRCA mutations (bottom), the collagen structure is disordered

Thugs in the Cellular Neighborhood

08.02.2023

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered how mutations in the BRCA genes, particularly prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews, lead to recruitment of...

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