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Cancerous tumors

Prof. Carmit Levy: Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment," explains Prof. Carmi, "but about 50% of patients do not respond to the standard treatment - the PD-L1 protein. We found a new protein Ly6a against which treatment with an antibody
In two recently published studies, Weizmann Institute of Science scientists mapped common brain cancer tumors with unprecedented resolution, and identified a possible reason why some patients do not respond to a new treatment
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists made bacterial cells mimic processes characteristic of multicellular organisms, and discovered a possible defense mechanism against cancer
A new approach to treating brain cancer forces glucose-starved cancer tumor cells to burn themselves out. The method was developed in the laboratory of Prof. Barak Rothblatt at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and is based on a decade of research