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09.02.2026

After transforming the treatment of blood cancers, the CAR-T approach developed at the Weizmann Institute is now showing promise in a mouse...

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29.12.2025

Three resistance mutations identified in Prof. Yardena Samuels’s lab may become targets for powerful new immunotherapies

Human lung cancer tissue under a microscope. The enzymes (yellow) that unmask the immune-activating molecules are found near the TREM2 receptors (red) of the tumor-assisting macrophages. This targeted unmasking can prevent damage to healthy tissues
19.11.2025

A new class of immune-activating molecules awakens anti-tumor immunity by targeting the tumor’s own defenses

Getting Cancer to Unmask Itself
27.03.2025

Researchers from Prof. Yardena Samuels’s lab manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new...

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
21.10.2024

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal how aging cells evade our immune systems – and propose developing an innovative treatment for age-related...

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09.09.2024

A new Weizmann Institute approach promises to advance cancer immunotherapy; it increases the proliferation rate of cancer-targeting immune...

Combat team: A dendritic cell (right) and a T cell, both from a mouse with skin cancer, combined using the BiCE antibody (yellow)
18.01.2024

A new kind of immunotherapy, based on crosstalk between different immune cells, could pave the way for innovative treatments of cancer and...

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20.09.2023

Cancer alters cellular waste-processing machinery, helping it avoid detection by the immune system

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
05.03.2023

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

Natural anticancer antibodies (green) bound to a single ovarian tumor cell; the cell’s nucleus is in blue. Viewed with confocal microscopy
23.03.2022

Natural antibodies found in tumors could point the way toward improved immunotherapy 

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