Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

winter school

Israeli and Czech Scientists Join Forces in Advancing Drug Discovery

22.01.2019

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

A new "winter school" has its first session at the Weizmann Institute of Science

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

stretched blood vessels

It’s a Stretch: Giving Direction to Blood Vessels

13.12.2018

Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Technology & Applications, Biotechnology

Scientists from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science reveal the mechanical forces that influence the...

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...

Medicinal Chemistry

The Weizmann Institute of Science establishes the Dr. Barry Sherman Institute for Medicinal Chemistry

04.12.2018

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The Institute will fund innovative research on compounds that hold promise for becoming therapies for a range of human diseases and...

TB binding structure

FAS Track to Fighting Antibiotic-Resistant TB

26.11.2018

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Solving the structure of a multi-enzyme bacterial complex may help antibiotics do their job against the deadly disease

cholesterol crystals

The Killer Crystal

13.11.2018

Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

How does a helpful substance like cholesterol turn deadly?

Fleishman and group

The Protein Planner

01.11.2018

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A computational method for designing dramatically more efficient versions of enzymes may lead to new avenues of drug design and new treatments...

Pairing cells

Liver Cells Give Away Their “Friends” Locations

29.10.2018

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Pairing cells makes the smaller ones easier to study

Merbl_proteasomes

Cellular Trash Cans Reveal the Roles of Proteins in Disease

22.10.2018

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A novel technology for profiling protein turnover and degradation offers new insight into diagnosis and understanding the molecular basis of...

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