Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A Long and Winding Road

A Long and Winding Road

01.03.2005

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Molecular messengers perform crucial role in nerve cell repair

Optimal Time Windows for Successful Embryonic Tissue Transplant

Optimal Time Windows for Successful Embryonic Tissue Transplant

15.02.2005

Cancer, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have determined distinct gestational time windows for the growth of transplanted pig embryonic...

Getting Cancer Therapy into the Bones

Getting Cancer Therapy into the Bones

22.12.2004

Cancer, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a new approach for directing treatment to metastasized prostate cancer in the bones

Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and Prof. Michal Schwartz. The immune connection

Unlikely Brain Boosters

01.10.2004

Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A new study shows that a healthy immune system is key to a healthy brain

Prof. Ruth Arnon and Dr. Tamar Ben-Yedidia. Supervaccine

Fighting the Flu

01.10.2004

Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The uncannily devious flu virus, it turns out, has an Achilles’ heel

Drs. Dan Tawfik and Amir Aharoni. Pondering PON

Discriminating Protein

01.10.2004

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Why are some people less prone to heart disease or neuronal damage? An elusive protein named PON might be the answer

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 1: MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 1: MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION

01.09.2004

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Structural Biology

Contrary to popular belief, getting cancer is not so easy.

Introduction

Introduction

01.09.2004

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Structural Biology

A new era is dawning in the battle against cancer. In the more than 30 years that have elapsed since U.S. President Richard Nixon “declared war” on...

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 2: TUMOR GROWTH

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 2: TUMOR GROWTH

01.09.2004

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Structural Biology

Even after a malignant transformation has occurred, the budding tumor is a microscopic lump that doesn’t do much harm until it begins to expand...

Models of Cancer

Models of Cancer

01.09.2004

Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Scientists say that the mouse is the workhorse of modern biology

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