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Chemotherapy

Cultured colorectal cancer cells. Top: Cells that have become resistant to certain forms of chemotherapy and continue to thrive. Bottom: The same cells, which have had the LIP gene inserted and are then treated with chemotherapy drugs
02.07.2015

What makes cancer cells survive chemotherapy?

Two Antibodies Are Better Than One
07.02.2013

A new approach mimicking the body’s natural defenses could help treat a...

cell and numbers. Image: Thinkstock
12.09.2012

The study explains why certain patients develop severe infections after chemotherapy and points to ways of averting this side-effect
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Genes that delay cell division exhibit reduced levels of expression (left) after exposure to a second, delayed pulse of growth factor. Those in cells receiving a single pulse (right box) maintained high expression levels
21.07.2011

A gene that keeps cell division in check may hold clues to chemotherapy resistance. 

Eight Hours of Resistance
25.05.2011

Why do cancer cells easily give in to the temptation to divide?
 

Stopgap DNA Repair Needs a Second Step
04.05.2009

One can have a dream, two can make that dream so real, goes a popular song. Now a Weizmann Institute study has...

How Cancer Cells Survive a Chemotherapy Drug
28.01.2009
What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy – leaving the door open to recurrence – from those that don’t?...
Predicting Success
24.04.2006
Weizmann Institute scientists create method for predicting chemotherapy success indicating...