Cancer

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Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes

12.09.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumors prevents effective immune responses

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Blood Stem Cells: The Methylation that Spells Differentiation

27.05.2019

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology

Manipulating an enzyme might be key to culturing cells for transplantation or other treatments

LATS1 knockout

The Hippo Pathway Keeps Cancer at Bay

16.05.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

What happens when genes in a cancer-preventing pathway are absent?

TOOKAD

TOOKAD®, Invented at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Gains European Approval for Prostate Cancer

29.04.2019

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The treatment, approved for use in 31 countries, is now being marketed in Germany, Italy, Israel and Mexico

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CEST la vie: High-Powered Magnets Improve Early Detection of Cancer in Rats

17.04.2019

Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The method revealed tissue disruptions that cannot be seen by other means

Fellows in the group of Prof. Ido Amit

No Rest for Weary Immune Cells

14.01.2019

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

An advanced method for investigating the activity of single cells could lead to better immunotherapy drugs

Stem cells

Lowering the Handbrakes on Stem Cell Production

03.01.2019

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Stem Cells

Cells that are reprogrammed to become stem cells benefit when a protein complex is removed

moving cells

Frustrated and Going in Circles

20.12.2018

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Nanoscience, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology

A model of collective movement that makes some members more ready to move than others helps explain how cells migrate in the body

Amit

Profiling a Killer in Warm Blood

06.12.2018

Cancer, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Israeli scientists and physicians develop a new technology for profiling the unique genetic makeup of myeloma tumor cells that will allow better...

migrating cells

The Migration of the Undead

08.11.2018

Biochemistry, Cancer, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development

Sub-lethal levels of a “self-destruct” enzyme hold cells in place

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