Cancer

Prof. Abraham Amsterdam

Curbing the Clock

01.05.2001

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Fertility, Genetics

By eavesdropping on ovarian cells, Weizmann Institute scientists hope to aid late-age pregnancies.

Prof. Adi Kimchi

Life-Yielding Deaths

01.05.2001

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Weizmann scientists reveal a gene for activating a suicide program in cells that are on their way to becoming cancerous

Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop a Novel System for Analyzing Genetic Data that Mimics the Human Capacity for Unsupervised Learning

Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop a Novel System for Analyzing Genetic Data that Mimics the Human Capacity for Unsupervised Learning

16.10.2000

Space & Physics, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Mathematics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Yeda Technology Transfer

New genetic research technologies, such as DNA chips, enable scientists to evaluate tissue samples from several patients simultaneously,...

Protein Teamwork Do or Die

Protein Teamwork Do or Die

01.10.2000

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics

To live, we all must die a little every day

Left to right: Shirley Barda, Prof. Eytan Domany, Gad Getz, Erel Levine

Data Cluster Control

01.10.2000

Space & Physics, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Yeda Technology Transfer

An algorithm that clusters similar data into sets may help make sense of mountains of experimental genetic data

Prof. Leo Sachs

To Find Cures for Cancer

01.10.2000

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

Nearly fifty years of research have taught Prof. Leo Sachs to expect the unexpected

Prof. Michal Neeman

Cancer under Siege

02.09.2000

Space & Physics, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A novel technique allows for the selective destruction of a malignant growth without damage to healthy tissue.

Shooting The Messenger

Shooting The Messenger

13.02.2000

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

The age-old appeal to avoid 'shooting the messenger' is apparently left unheeded by the body's protein regulation system. Researchers at the...

light therapy gets green light

light therapy gets green light

01.05.1998

Chlorophyll + light = a cancer-killing therapy

The Picture Of Health

The Picture Of Health

01.10.1997

A new, non-invasive, MRI-based diagnostic method may replace biopsies for revealing malignant breast tumors

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Shedding Light on the Dark Hours

Credit: Coleen Murphy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Cracking the Code of a Worm's Throat

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Burning Cancer’s Bridges

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions

A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking