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Gene therapy in an improved recipe

Weizmann Institute
October 16, 2024

An innovative treatment for Gaucher's disease shows promising results in mice and gives hope to patients after decades of research

New insights about Parkinson's disease - and the meaning for medicine

Dr.Roey Tsezana
July 3, 2024

In recent years it turned out that long before the first symptoms of Parkinson's appear, it is possible to find a change in the population of intestinal bacteria of the patients

The Trojan Horse of the Hamlin Piper

Avi Blizovsky
June 29, 2024
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Dr. Patricia Mora-Raymondo of the Technion won a prestigious European award for developing a method to treat Parkinson's disease with the help of music

open a little mouth

Weizmann Institute
June 6, 2024

This is how you maintain a balanced diet of the autophagy organs - the self-eating mechanism in our body cells that removes waste and strengthens our health

Neurological morbidity is the world's number 1 cause of morbidity and disability, with over 3 billion people with brain diseases

Avi Blizovsky
March 18, 2024
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Neurological morbidity is the world's number 1 cause of morbidity and disability, with over 3 billion people with brain diseases * according to an article published this weekend in the Lancet. The scope of morbidity and disability has grown since then

A new study at the University of Haifa found for the first time a connection between Parkinson's disease and the extracellular matrix in the brain

Haifa University
March 6, 2024
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Extracellular matrix is the part of the tissue that surrounds the cells and provides them with structural support. Beyond the structural function of the matrix, it is used for a variety of roles, such as separating tissues from one another and controlling

Virgin Galactic space flight 02 landed safely, consisting of four women and only two men

Avi Blizovsky
August 10, 2023
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One of the space tourists is Kisha Shaf, who is married to an Israeli and wears the Israeli flag. In addition, her 18-year-old daughter Anastasia Myers flew - the first combination of mother and daughter on a space flight. During the flight arrived

fight degenerative diseases

The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
July 27, 2023

The proteins and mechanisms required to fight the protein accumulations that lead to neurodegenerative diseases have been identified

A common detergent is linked to a significant increase in the incidence of Parkinson's disease

Dr. Moshe Nahamani
March 16, 2023
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For the past hundred years, the chemical trichloroethylene [TCE] has been used in decaffeinated coffee, metal cleaners, and dry-cleaned clothes. The substance itself is known to be a carcinogen, it is associated with abortions, congenital heart disease

Prof. Michal Schwartz from the Weizmann Institute won the Israel Prize for research on the relationship between the immune system and the nervous system

Avi Blizovsky
March 14, 2023
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Prof. Schwartz challenged the convention that nerve cells do not regenerate or recover, and discovered that the immune system also takes care of them. She also studied the blood-brain barrier and discovered that it is prevented

What is the connection between brain and memory?

Bar-Ilan University
May 8, 2022

At the Multidisciplinary Center for Brain Research at Bar-Ilan University, researchers investigate, among other things, the effect of age, brain injuries or neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease on memory

A new direction for drugs that will slow down the development of Parkinson's

The Hebrew University
May 24, 2021

Researchers from the Hebrew University and Penn State University revealed for the first time the structures of the central protein in the early stages of Parkinson's disease. Dr. Eitan Lerner: "The findings may help in the development of drugs that will help slow down the rate

The google maps of the brain: locating RNA fragments in brain cells without removing the tissue

Bar-Ilan University
February 2, 2021
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Dr. Shahar Alon, who came from MIT to the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, was a partner in the study together with researchers from Harvard and MIT * "Using our technology, researchers and doctors will be able to perform genomic analysis in 3D