Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

pain response

Targeting a Chronic Pain Gateway Could Bring Relief

14.08.2020

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

A new approach to chronic pain treatment targets a molecule that moves pain messages into nerve cell nuclei

Lung cancer samples: Far left untreated. Lung cancer tissue failed to respond when exposed to a microtubule inhibitor drug (left) or to a drug that enhanced the apoptosis-inducing pathway (middle). But when the two drugs were applied together to the same tissue, the cancer cells died (right)

A New Approach to Tailoring Cancer Therapy: Tapping into Signaling Activities in Cancer Cells

16.07.2020

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Matching drugs to tumors may lead to personalized treatment and new therapies

bilharzia

Fewer Infections, More Allergies: Finding the Connection

03.06.2020

Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

“Packages” released by bilharzia parasites may hold the key to better diagnosis and treatment, and may point to new ways of treating autoimmune...

bacteria in cancer cells

Cells inside Cells: The Bacteria That Live in Cancer Cells

28.05.2020

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

The bacterial lodgers in cancer cells may hinder or help treatment

Antibiotic Resistance - Dr. Nitai Steinberg

Here Come the Bacteria

24.05.2020

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development

An animated video on the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by Weizmann Institute Alumni Dr. Nitai Steinberg won Student Prize in...

endocrine glands

Paying the Price of Protection

19.05.2020

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

A new model of autoimmune disease may solve some great outstanding riddles, including what causes T cells to attack and why only certain organs get...

Antibody niche

How to Neutralize the Coronavirus: Learning from the Body

12.05.2020

Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Making copies of existing antibodies could be fast track to treatment

Irit Sagi

The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science Collaborate to Fight Coronavirus

06.05.2020

Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A milestone in relations between the two institutes could advance a cure

Nir London

Israeli-American-British Labs and Biotech Partner to Speed Coronavirus Drug Development

04.05.2020

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

An international initiative aims to identify compounds that target a key enzyme in the virus's life cycle

Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell), Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting is part of a series of Five Senses that Rembrandt painted in Leiden around 1625, when he was 19. It was discovered in 2015 in an art collection belonging to a family from New Jersey

Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop "Sniff Test" that Predicts Recovery of Consciousness in Brain-Injured Patients

29.04.2020

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

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Burning Cancer’s Bridges

Crystalizing Our Comprehension of Malaria

A tumor sample from a human patient with the most common type of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma). Senescent cells are highlighted by their expression of the p16 (red) and the PD-L1 (green) proteins. Cell nuclei are in blue

Unclogging the Immune System

MRI brain scans of mice with Gaucher disease Type III. The scan of a mouse that received the new treatment (left) shows a significant reduction in tissue inflammation (blue) compared to an untreated mouse (right)

Improving the Recipe for Gene Therapy

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions

A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking

Navigating the Digestive Tract