Disease diagnosis

Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria responsible for gonorrhea. Source: NIAID.

Receive results of tests to detect sexually transmitted diseases within a few hours

The first device in history to produce technetium 99mTc) 99m) for medical needs. Taken in 1958. Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory.

A shortage of a rare isotope is about to endanger the health of millions

A health worker in Ethiopia puts a blood sample on a rapid malaria test kit, 2012. Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia.

Ideas that will change the world: cheap diagnostic tools on pieces of paper

Illustration: pixabay.

New IBM research will allow early detection of eye disease

Between matching and cutting

Trisomy 21 (chromosome number 21 appears 3 times) which characterizes Down syndrome

chipping (of genes)

Prof. Naim Shahada (left) and Dr. Gal Neuman at the Rambam clinic. Photo: Piotr Plitar.

Sons ate unripe, the teeth of fathers will be priests

The research students Roy Avraham (third from the right) and Aldeme Shoshana-Chen (second from the right) and Prof. Yordan collaborated with Ohad Manor (first from the right) and with Dr. Eran Segal (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics), Dr. Reot Shelgi and Prof. Yitzhak Pepper (Molecular Genetics), Gabi Tersik and Dr. Yara Tsong (Biological Control), Noa Busel (fourth from the right) and Amit Tzizel from Prof. Eitan Domani's group (Physics of Complex Systems), all at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel Steinfeld and Prof. Zohar Yachini from the Technion , Dr. Ido Amit from MIT and Harvard University, Dr. Aspen Anerli, Dr. Hega Rosens and Prof. Ann-Lise Borsen-Dale from the University of Oslo, and Dr. Francesca Biagoni, Dr. Marcella Motulza, Dr. Sabrina Strano and Prof. Giovanni Blandino from the Regina Elena Cancer Institute in Rome

An obstacle to cancer

The opening page of the first publication in which Huntington describes the disease named after him

Oedipus, Theresias and Huntington's disease: the prophecy fulfilled

Ovarian tape is bilateral

A new method for early diagnosis of cancer

A chemical lab the size of a credit card. Photo: Polish Academy of Sciences

Lab-on-a-chip for cancer detection

Papilloma virus - HPV

Carbon nanotube sensors for protein detection

"Coffee rings" are not unique to coffee

Coffee stains and their relation to the detection of diseases

Right: Dr. Sena Shilstein, Prof. Amos Barskin, Dr. Rachel Chetzik and Marco Cortezi. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Take the prostate out of the fire - as early as possible

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New compounds send out light signals when they trap substances in the blood