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Blue-Sky Dye Spells Hope for Improving Heart Function

05.12.2019

Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The small molecule reduces damaging inflammation and improves heart function in mouse models of heart attack

Rivka Dikstein

New Molecules Precisely Target Mutant Disease Gene

02.12.2019

Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

These molecules may prevent only some of a crucial gene's activities without affecting others

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For the First Time: A Method for Measuring Animal Personality

04.11.2019

Brain & Behavior, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Genetics

A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behavior and personality

eradicating cancer

A New Route to Blocking Children’s Bone Cancer

02.10.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A study in mice showed that reducing a particular hormone signal keeps the cancer from growing and spreading

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Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes

12.09.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumors prevents effective immune responses

gut bacteria

Gut Microbes May Affect the Course of ALS

22.07.2019

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

Researchers isolated a molecule that may be under-produced in the guts of patients

Stem cell cultures

Blood Stem Cells: The Methylation that Spells Differentiation

27.05.2019

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology

Manipulating an enzyme might be key to culturing cells for transplantation or other treatments

LATS1 knockout

The Hippo Pathway Keeps Cancer at Bay

16.05.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

What happens when genes in a cancer-preventing pathway are absent?

TOOKAD

TOOKAD®, Invented at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Gains European Approval for Prostate Cancer

29.04.2019

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The treatment, approved for use in 31 countries, is now being marketed in Germany, Italy, Israel and Mexico

New Clinical Study Being Launched at the Weizmann Institute of Science

New Clinical Study Being Launched at the Weizmann Institute of Science

08.04.2019

Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The research may help in developing methodologies that could predict diseases years before their onset

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