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Prof. Shay Yazraeli. Public relations photo, Schneider Hospital

A breakthrough Israeli study in the treatment of the spread of leukemia to the brain

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Researchers from the hematology-oncology department at the Schneider Pediatric Center and Tel Aviv University, the Technion and the University of Glasgow participated in the study. The researchers discovered that a drug that inhibits the formation of fatty acids may stop the spread of leukemia to the brain. The discovery was published in the scientific magazine Nature Cancer
Cardiac tissue regeneration under the microscope. In the picture you can see thin green stripes that mark the cleavage furrows that form between the heart muscle cells (in red) that are dividing. The laboratory of Prof. Eldad Tzhor, Weizmann Institute

Heal the heart with the help of cancerous processes

Researchers from the laboratory of Prof. Eldad Tzhor from the Weizmann Institute discovered that given the right signal, mature heart muscle cells in mice can go back to an earlier developmental state and replace the scar tissue with new, healthy tissue
talcum powder. In May 2020, Johnson & Johnson announced that it was discontinuing the sale of baby talc in the United States and Canada

The dark side of talc

The problem is that many times in the mines from which the talc is extracted, asbestos is also found and therefore it may end up in the final product of the talc as well. Johnson & Johnson has stopped marketing baby talc in the US and Canada
Hair loss, one of the severe side effects of chemotherapy. From jumpstory

The next generation of chemotherapy treatments are safe to use

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Prof. Dafna Weiss. Credit: Technion barges

First success in predicting metastases based on mechanical examination of cells from cancer tumors

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the lungs. From jumpstory

A new approach to personalized cancer medicine: listening to the internal messages inside the tumor cells

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overall health. Illustration: shutterstock

Untreated heart problems may encourage the development of cancerous tumors and metastases

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Bacteria (in green) establish a home in cancer cells and settle comfortably in the cell nucleus area. Source: Weizmann Institute

Cell within a cell: the bacteria that live inside cancerous tumors

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First row (from right to left): Inbal Zigdon, Dr. Yifat Marble, Dr. Molly Dayan and Dr. Ron Ben-Yair (in the frame), second row: Noa Hezekiah, Dr. Merav Shmoeli and Roi Maor, third row: Neta Nodel, Dr. Avital Eisenberg-Lerner, Mercedes Rosenwald and Dr. Matthias Kramer, fourth row: Adi Ullman and Dr. Judith Itka Shagiv. Do not break under pressure. Photo by Weizmann Institute spokesperson

Port arrester and release mechanism in the human cell

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Prof. Gideon Ravavi, Head of the Cancer Research Department at the Sheba Medical Center. PR photo

The Israel Prize in Medical Sciences to Prof. Gideon Ravavi of Shiba, head of the "Genome-Based Hospital" program

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Cancer cell genome. Illustration: shutterstock

Genetic secrets of nearly 2,700 types of cancer have been revealed by an extensive international project

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Prof. Yuval Shaked Photo by Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

A Technion researcher presents new ways to curb the development of resistance to cancer treatments

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Violent cancer cells. Illustration, the lab of Dr. Ofra Bani, Hebrew University

Research from the Hebrew University has found a new method for diagnosing violent and deadly cancer

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Differences in the cellular environment (acidity and metabolism) affect the solubility of metal oxides, in the present example copper oxide (CuO). The researchers hypothesized that plating the oxide with iron atoms could provide a therapeutic window to fight cancer. This means a release rate that is fast enough to target the cancer cells, but one that slows down significantly in healthy cells.

Copper-based nanomaterials can destroy cancer cells

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Pancreatic cancer. Illustration: shutterstock

A group of Israeli researchers in California reports a breakthrough in curing pancreatic cancer

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CEO of P-Cure, Dr. Ramichal Marash. Photo: Idan Maoz

P-Cure has developed a proton-based cancer radiation device that does not require an entire building

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Genetic database. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine in Bar-Ilan establish a database that allows for the identification of genetic fusion that is amenable to drug therapy

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(Right to left): Dr. Talia Golan and Prof. Malka Cohen-Armon. Photo: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

A molecule has been discovered that causes the self-destruction of pancreatic cancer cells

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Extraction of molecules with electrical pulses allows identification of cancerous tissues compared to normal tissues. Photo: Prof. Alexander Gulberg.

A new method for tissue sampling that may save the pain and risk involved in repeat biopsies

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Dr. Itai Tirosh and Julie Lafi. The most common and violent brain cancer

Against four cells - why is there currently no effective drug for the treatment of glioblastoma brain cancer?

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The team of researchers. From right to left: Peleg Ryder, Diana Resoloniriana and Dr. Yaron Karmi Photo: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

Researchers have succeeded in developing an immunotherapy treatment platform that may be suitable for many types of cancer

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Lungs of an untreated mouse with Ewing's sarcoma (left) containing many cancer cells (highlighted) that have spread from the bones, compared to almost completely clean lungs of a mouse treated with a drug that reduces glucocorticoid production (right)

The causes of the spread of bone cancer were revealed in Ewing's name

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Early detection of cancer. Illustration: Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

A nanotechnological biochip for detecting minimal levels of disease markers

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Immunotherapy to cure cancer. Illustration: shutterstock

Israeli researchers have uncovered a central mechanism that causes metastatic melanoma to be resistant to immunotherapy

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The original scan (on the left) and the areas from which information was extracted (in red, on the right) using the technology developed at the Technion

The computerized pathologist

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