Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

gut bacteria

Blood Sugar Levels in Response to Foods Are Highly Individual

19.11.2015

Personalized Medicine, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The largest study of its kind supports the need for personalized dietary recommendations

comparing rice only to normal diet

How Does Your Microbiome Grow?

01.09.2015

Personalized Medicine, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The reproduction rates of the bacteria in one's gut may be a good indicator of health or disease

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galectins

13.07.2015

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

A protein ties osteoporosis to high blood sugar and the spread of cancer to the bone

New lung cells are continuously created to replace the damaged ones: Lung tissue six weeks after stem cell transplantation (left) and 16 weeks after transplantation (right). Cells that originated in the transplanted stem cells are green, as opposed to the uncolored host lung cells. Photon-2 microscope image

Stem Cells Might Heal Damaged Lungs

13.07.2015

Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Transplanted cells made their way to the lungs in mice and began producing healthy tissue

Metastatic melanoma cells. Image: NIH

Melanoma Mutations Mapped

08.07.2015

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

Scientists can now begin to make sense of the way a deadly cancer develops

PYK2 (red) and the cell-surface receptor (green) that triggers the cellular transition to a pro-metastatic state are found in the same membrane compartment (yellow) from which the transition signal is transmitted

Up Against a Triple Negative

08.07.2015

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

A signal stuck in the “on” position may hasten metastasis in certain breast cancers

Prof. Zelig Eshhar

Prof. Zelig Eshhar

27.05.2015

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Nutrition, Stem Cells, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Prof. Zelig Eshhar

Dr. Eran Elinav

Dr. Eran Elinav

11.05.2015

Personalized Medicine, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Dr. Eran Elinav

Immortalized cells, left, pretreated with a drug that blocks the ERK signal, and right, without the pretreatment. Top cells are untreated, while the bottom ones are stimulated

To Stop Cancer: Block its Messages

30.03.2015

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists identify a potential drug molecule that stops cancer cells, but not healthy ones, from getting their “mail”

Tobacco mosaic virus

This Day in Science History: The discovery of viruses – “the filterable agents”(12/2/1892)

12.02.2015

Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Plants and Agriculture, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

On 12/2/1892, the first evidence for the existence of viruses was presented: Dimitri Ivanovsky, a young Russian scientist, suggested before the...

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