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Mystery Protein Points to New Immune "Smoke Detector"

21.05.2023

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

Discovering a new kind of sensing complex could help develop treatments for inflammatory diseases

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Why Do Cancer Patients Lose So Much Weight?

08.05.2023

Cancer, Nutrition, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Wasting syndrome – a deadly cancer side-effect – might be diagnosed and treated early on, according to a new study

The brain of a mouse with an MS-like disease reveals clusters of microglia (green) and T cells (red)

Down with MS

03.05.2023

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Focusing on the ups and downs of multiple sclerosis, Weizmann Institute researchers discover a major player in its remission

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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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A Little Dusty – but Alive

14.03.2023

Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

A Weizmann Institute study shows that some bacteria that hitch a long-distance ride on desert dust particles may touch down alive and kicking

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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

Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)

The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals

27.02.2023

Nutrition, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor...

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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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