Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

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Plant Research Reaches a New High

01.05.2023

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development, Plants and Agriculture

Weizmann scientists revealed the step-by-step production of cannabinoids in a South African plant, pointing to new ways of manufacturing them for...

Decades-Old Mystery of Red Blood Cell Production Finally Solved

Decades-Old Mystery of Red Blood Cell Production Finally Solved

27.04.2023

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

Identifying the cells producing the hormone EPO may lead to the development of new therapies for treating anemia resulting from kidney disease and...

Prof. Michal Schwartz

Israel Prize in Life Sciences to Prof. Michal Schwartz

20.03.2023

Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Schwartz was honored for “groundbreaking discoveries that led to a new understanding of the interactions between the immune system and the brain”

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Treating a Heart Attack before It Happens

08.03.2023

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

A preventive procedure, performed on healthy mice, improved their recovery from later-occurring cardiac injury, reshaping our knowledge of...

Tissue sample of a particularly aggressive skin cancer reveals immune cells (yellow) that express on their surfaces a “brake pedal” receptor called FcgIIb (purple); cell nuclei are in blue

Immunotherapy Drugs Step on the Gas

05.03.2023

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

Sometimes anticancer antibodies press on the gas and the brakes at the same time. New research might help them accelerate better

Collagen fibers deposited by fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment, viewed under a microscope. The fibers form an orderly pattern in tumors with an unmutated BRCA gene (top); in contrast, in tumors of patients harboring BRCA mutations (bottom), the collagen structure is disordered

Thugs in the Cellular Neighborhood

08.02.2023

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered how mutations in the BRCA genes, particularly prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews, lead to recruitment of...

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The Protein Wears Prada

26.01.2023

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Technology & Applications, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A new computational method that tracks multiple protein modifications promises to shed new light on unsolved biomedical problems

Patterns of epigenetic markers revealed by EPINUC on blood nucleosomes (bright-red dots)

Putting Liquid Biopsies on Solid Ground: Cancer Diagnosis from a Milliliter of Blood

08.09.2022

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

If larger studies confirm the results of a Weizmann Institute innovation, diagnosing cancer may one day be as easy as taking blood

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Desperate Cancer Cells

31.08.2022

Cancer, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

How tumors mutate their way out of a crisis – and become drug resistant in the process

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Sweetness That Comes at a Price: Sugar Substitutes May Affect the Human Body in Unanticipated Ways

18.08.2022

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

A controlled trial suggests that non-nutritive sweeteners affect the human gut microbes and may alter glucose metabolism

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