Avi Maimon

Photomicrograph of a biopsy from a patient's lungs. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Towards a new generation of treatments for old age diseases

A lung lobe of a mouse with cancer cell metastases expressing phosphorylated protein, to allow quantification and measurement of the metastases. Credit: Dr. Avi Maimon.

Groundbreaking research: a new protein has been found that significantly inhibits cancer metastasis

A protective protein, which was generally known to be effective against blood clots, was found to be capable of inhibiting the most violent means of cancer in the human body - metastasis. Prof. Tal Borshtin-Cohen, the leader of the research, believes that the surprising discovery