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Prof. Avraham Amsterdam

Asthma Drug Used to Enhance Ovarian and Lung Cancer Treatment

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Avraham Amsterdam revealed that theophylline, a widely used asthma drug, makes ovarian and lung cancer cells more vulnerable to common...
Prof. Yair Reisner

Hepatitis B and C Therapies

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Yair Reisner developed mice with functioning human immune systems. These laboratory animals can be used for research on a broad range of human...
Prof. Yair Reisner

Method Preventing Transplant Rejection

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Yair Reisner studied molecules of various sugars and sugar-binding proteins called lectins, which allow cells to identify one another and latch...
Prof. David Givol

Antibody Fragment Used in Genetic Engineering Techniques

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. David Givol spent a significant part of his career investigating the structure-function relationship of antibodies. He identified the smallest...
Prof. Leo Sachs

Amniocentesis

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to use cells from the amniotic fluid surrounding the human fetus for diagnostic purposes. The procedure later became...
Prof. Mordhay Avron

Food Supplements

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Mordhay Avron isolated and investigated the single-cell alga, Dunaliella, which is able to survive in extremely harsh surroundings, such as the...
Prof. Hadassa Degani

3TP Method for Detection of Breast and Prostate Cancer

08.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Hadassa Degani studied the mechanisms that supply cancerous tumors with oxygen and nutrients. Using magnetic resonance imaging, she developed a...
Three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, serum paraoxonase (PON1), which has been mutated in the lab of Prof. Dan Tawfik through directed evolution to endow the enzyme with new functions

What Makes Proteins Tick?

30.08.2010
Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
From solving the structure of crystallized proteins to creating computer simulations of protein dynamics, Institute scientists employ a wide variety...
Lymphatic system of an adult zebrafish, from the lab of Dr. Karina Yaniv

How Does a Body Evolve from Two Cells?

30.08.2010
Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development, Genetics
It has been called a mystery and a miracle. It is truly a process so complex that we’re just beginning to tease apart the series of events that...
New Invention at the Weizmann Institute Enables Severely Disabled People to Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing

New Invention at the Weizmann Institute Enables Severely Disabled People to Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing

27.07.2010
Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
A unique device based on sniffing – inhaling and exhaling through the nose – might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or...

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