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Cut in a fetal body. Courtesy of the researchers

How - and where - does a disease begin?

Researchers discovered which genes are required for each stage of cell differentiation into neural stem cells and neurons, i.e. for brain development, and which of them are involved in diseases of the nervous system
Dr. Catherine Vandorna. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson

This is how the bone marrow reacts to injuries and infections

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Dr. Kathryn Vandorna from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion developed a new method that allows the monitoring of the formation of immune blood cells in the bone marrow. For this purpose, she used tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide, which she followed with various imaging methods, including MRI of the living creature
Advances in cancer immunotherapy. The image was produced by DALLE 3 artificial intelligence software and is intended for impressions. It should not be seen as a scientific picture

Technion researchers present a significant improvement in predicting the success of immunotherapy treatments

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The technology developed by Prof. Yuval Shaked's research group was registered as a patent and is now in the process of being commercialized
Tissues removed from mice implanted with lung cancer cells engineered to produce high amounts of PSME4 (left column) or unmodified cancer cells (right column). When the protein is expressed in a high amount, the tumor is larger (top row, the tumor cells are marked in intense and concentrated purple), the number of T cells that can fight the tumor is lower (middle row, in white), and there are more cells that suppress the immune response (bottom row, in green)

The cancer to the basket and eliminated

The cell's garbage disposal system changes in cancer and allows it to escape the immune system
From 0 to 100%: the prediction provided by the model for metasynergy between different drugs

Drug combination in the fight against cancer: an innovative approach that combines biology, chemistry and artificial intelligence

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The research image as published on the cover of Advanced Science magazine

Researchers have succeeded in eliminating most of the myeloma cells in the bone marrow using an RNA-based drug

Thanks to the nanoparticle system they developed - the cancer cell stops dividing and dies
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The discovery that will advance personalized medicine for infectious diseases

This is the first time that researchers succeed in developing personalized tools for infectious diseases, which until now have only been developed for specific diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's
A new study by Prof. Ofra Bani from the School of Pharmacy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Sharon Marims - dermatology specialist and senior physician at the dermato-oncology clinic at the Hadassah Medical Center and the Hadassah Cancer Research Institute, published in Science Translational Medicine courtesy of the Hebrew University

A new way to solve side effects of cancer treatment

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Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Hadassah Medical Center have developed an ointment to treat the severe side effects of targeted cancer treatment and significantly improve the quality of life of patients.
The thinness of the cancer. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why do cancer patients lose weight?

The institute's scientists reveal how cancer leads to fatal emaciation and point the way to treatment
Genetic engineering of T cells - of the immune system. (T Cell-CAR). Illustration: depositphotos.com

Innovative treatment for myeloma and amyloidosis patients

In the clinical trial, T Cell-CAR genetic engineering technology was used to program the patient's white blood cells to attack the cancerous blood tumors
At the beginning of the process, the circular peptides bind to the ubiquitin chain; As a result, the DNA repair mechanism is damaged; And eventually the cancer cells undergo a process of cell death (apoptosis)

Researchers at the Technion discovered unique peptides with anti-cancer potential

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The research was led by researchers from two faculties at the Technion and their colleague from the University of Tokyo
Right: Immune clusters in the liver of a mouse containing ILCs, and within them cancer cells (in red). On the left: immune clusters in the liver of a mouse from which ILCs have been removed, and within them cancer cells. The cancer cells thrive more in the mouse liver which contains ILCs

The immune system gets tired - and the cancer spreads

Pools of immune system cells taken from patients and mice with liver cancer and melanoma, partly composed of tired immune cells
A cancer cell divides. Illustration: depositphotos.com

"Silent" mutations can predict the development of cancer cells

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that silent mutations, i.e. those that do not change the amino acid sequence of the proteins, are also not innocent
Medical imaging. Photo: depositphotos.com

Development of a radioactive marker to identify small and aggressive cancerous tumors

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A marker developed in a new Israeli study by the University of Bar-in and applied by the start-up company Isotopia will not only determine if it is a malignant or benign tumor but also determine how aggressive it is, and all this will be done in one image and avoid a biopsy
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The memories of a cancer cell

A group of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science recently investigated what happens to cellular memory in cancer. Their findings illustrate how "memory loss" may affect the course of malignant diseases
pest control Photo: ds 30-Dmitriy Pixabay

Studies show - today's pest control is less dangerous and more economical

When the scientists inhibited the production of the nucleic acid purine in the cancerous tissue (right), more T cells of the immune system penetrated it during the immunotherapy phase, compared to tissue that had not been pretreated with purine inhibitors (left). Photo production: Dr. Raya Elam

Vulnerability is acquired

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Cancer Institute and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently found a genetic signature that differentiates between tumors that may respond to immunotherapy and tumors that are resistant to this treatment method. Besides better diagnostic tools for predicting the response of patients to immunotherapy
Imaging of communication between two cells of the immune system - a "combatant" T cell and a "suppressor" myeloid cell. The yellow sparks are meant to illustrate intracellular processes that can be detected using the new method

New technology allows a "peek" into what is happening inside cells

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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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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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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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Stem cells differentiate into neurons and an unsorted stem cell colony. Prof. Yishai Avior, Hebrew University

Fetal stem cells that are used to treat diseases and in research - may contain cancerous mutations

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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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Genomic medicine is changing the face of cancer treatment. Photo: shutterstock

Breakthrough of 2018 according to SCIENCE: DNA sequencing of a single cell

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