Personalized medicine

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The Technion will award the Harvey Prize to three groundbreaking researchers in the field of cancer epigenetics

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Prof. Peter Jones, Prof. Steven Bailin and Prof. Andrew Feinberg will receive the Harvey Award in the field of science and technology for their contribution to the diagnosis of diseases and the development of treatments based on the understanding of epigenetic mechanisms
Improving a disease prediction model. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image.

A new model can change the ways of decision-making in healthcare systems

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Researchers from the Hebrew University improved Elixhauser's comorbidity model and improved the accuracy of predictions about the duration of hospitalization, risk of mortality, re-hospitalization and increased treatment
Glucose measuring device on hand, connected to diabetes management with advanced technology that predicts sugar levels four years ahead. ISHA SALIAN

Weizmann Institute researchers, Pheno.AI and NVIDIA developed a creative artificial intelligence model to predict blood sugar levels up to 4 years ahead

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The researchers of the three organizations reveal GluFormer, a generative artificial intelligence model (Generative AI) based on a transformer architecture similar to GPT from OpenAI - but instead of text - it produces a prediction of levels
Lung cancer. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Research at the Faculty of Biology at the Technion paves the way for innovative lung cancer treatment

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cancer cell Illustration: depositphotos.com

What predicts your cancer type?

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From the right: Dr. Shagit Meir, Dr. Eva Heinig, Dr. Nikolai Kuzmich, Prof. Assaf Aharoni, Dr. Shirley Berman, Dr. Yoav Peleg, Hila Hart and Dr. Ilana Rogchev (photographed in the nursery Regev)

Hallucinations of cacti

The secrets of the production of mescaline have been revealed - a natural hallucinogenic drug with therapeutic potential * The drug extracted from the extinct peyote cactus has been used in religious ceremonies for thousands of years. Its effect on serotonin receptors in the brain
Imaging of human small intestine tissue using a fluorescence staining method that allows marking a large number of proteins at the same time and thus mapping which proteins are produced in the entire basal area of ​​the intestine

navigate the digestive tract

In the top row: connectivity in healthy brains, in the bottom row: connectivity in the brains of head-injured people. In the right column: connectivity in the brains of girls and women before menstruation, in the left column: connectivity in the brains of girls and women after menstruation.

Personalized medicine - and gender

Evidence is growing that brain damage in girls, which occurs during puberty, impairs cognitive function and the strength of the brain network
Personalized medicine. The image was prepared with the help of DALEE artificial intelligence software and is not a scientific image

Towards a treatment for Huntington's: two small molecules may revolutionize the treatment of an incurable disease

Weizmann Institute scientists have shown in a mouse model that the drugs succeed in penetrating through the blood-brain barrier, delaying the progression of the disease and even reversing it
Emma Twain is a virtual character who participates in medical experiments. Photo by Dassault Systèmes

Emma Twine, a Dassault Systèmes virtual character, demonstrates how virtual twins advance medical development

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Emma Twin will share through social media posts how she, as a virtual twin, helps doctors and researchers better understand diseases and the effectiveness of treatments - without endangering flesh and blood patients
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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
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Artificial intelligence in the service of cancer medicine

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A technology based on artificial intelligence may quickly and simply decode genetic and molecular information about cancer tumors. On the horizon: personalized medicine for cancer patients
Prof. Dan Farr (Photo: Yonatan Blum)

Unique RNA technology for personalized cancer medicine

The nanomedicine that attacks cancer twice: both improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy and strengthens the immune system
A deaf person undergoes a hearing test. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed genetic therapy for deafness

A new study from Tel Aviv University presents an innovative treatment for deafness, which is based on the introduction of genetic cargo into the cells of the inner ear. As part of the treatment, the genetic load is inserted into the damaged cell in such a way that it actually "repairs"
the lungs. From jumpstory

A new approach to personalized cancer medicine: listening to the internal messages inside the tumor cells

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Confused teacher: 5 things you should know when choosing a comprehensive genomic test for cancer diagnosis

What parameters should be taken into account when choosing a genomic test for cancer?
Who is a comprehensive cancer genomic test not suitable for?

Comprehensive genomic testing in cancer: for whom is the test not suitable?

Comprehensive genomic testing in cancer: great hope, but not for everyone
Autism awareness. Illustration: shutterstock

The paradox of identical twins - one on the spectrum and the other healthy

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Personalized medicine. Illustration: shutterstock

16 research proposals were selected in the second round of the research program in personalized medicine of the National Science Foundation

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Disease at first glance: when a cell of the immune system (macrophage, in blue) meets a bacterium (in red), what happens in the first 48-24 hours is crucial

An algorithm that may predict the chance of contracting tuberculosis

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genetically modified fetus. Illustration: shutterstock

A Russian scientist plans to genetically engineer babies by the end of 2019 - and the scientific bodies admit that they are unable to stop him

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

A donation will allow the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion and the University of Michigan to collaborate in promoting precision medicine

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Genome and blockchain. Illustration: shutterstock

The "genetic wallet" that will contain confidential genetic information with the help of blockchain

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Nose. Illustration: Spokesperson of the Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists inserted a miniature "nose" into a living cell

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Cellular "selfie": an mTEC cell that was photographed using the new method called PLIC. The green dots indicate an interaction between proteins that helps prevent an autoimmune attack. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Security selfie

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Cancer cells. Illustration: NIH (Yu (Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC), USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pancreatic Desmoplasia).

A new approach will allow personalized medicine for countless types of diseases

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Imaging of a cancer cell. Source: Trail-in Pharma.

The FDA has put a new drug for aggressive "triple negative" cancer patients on the fast track for approval

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Electron micrograph of a cancerous breast cell. Source: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Researchers have discovered that breast cancer cells can be turned back into ones that mimic healthy breast tissue cells

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Towards personalized medicine: two new databases on diseases and the human genome

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Mixi Biomed Conference 2017. Source: from the conference website.

Personalized medicine, the aging process and their impact on the global economy

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Genomic medicine. Photography: FoundationOne ©2012 Jon Chomitz Photography

Cancer treatment is taking a turn thanks to genomic medicine

Cancer medicine is moving to personalized treatment: patients will receive treatment that is specifically suited to their tumor
When the level of PYK2 is lowered through genetic engineering, metastatic breast cancer cells (left) revert to a non-invasive state (right). In this state they come into contact with each other and take the form of healthy tissue cells. Source: Weizmann Institute.

On the occasion of International Women's Day 2016: three goals

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A balanced diet. Illustration: shutterstock

There are large inter-individual differences between different people in their responses to food

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Chemical engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an implantable device capable of injecting many drugs into the body at the same time, which could help them identify the most effective drugs. [Courtesy of Eric Smith]

Personalized medicine: choosing the best medicine

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Using stem cells to grow organs for transplantation. Illustration: shutterstock

"By regulating and controlling processes in the cell, it will be possible to treat diseases and injuries that are difficult to treat in conventional ways."

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Melanoma cells. Photo: shutterstock

The characterization of the different types of skin cancer (melanoma) will enable the development of personalized treatment

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DNA. Illustration: shutterstock

Analytical technologies developed at IBM's research laboratory in Haifa will help fight against resistant tuberculosis bacteria and cancer

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Professor Eliezer Shalu, Dean of the Rapaport Faculty of Medicine. Photo: Sharon Tzur, Technion Spokesperson

"The medicine of the future will focus on prevention, prediction and early diagnosis, and technology plays an important role in this transition"

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Single cell populations in the intestine. Scanning electron microscope photograph of single-cell populations on top of intestinal epithelial cells

The second genome

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"Most diseases can already be diagnosed today," Prof. David Aigos at the President's Conference. Photography: Itai Nebo

You can live without diseases

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NMR scan of the brain of a 15-year-old boy suffering from glioblastoma brain cancer. From Wikipedia

The International Conference on Personalized Medicine returns to be hosted in Israel

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Prof. Shokrat Mitilifov, the Medical-Scientific University of Oregon, was the first to succeed in cloning an embryo carrying the genetic load of a specific patient - in this case, an eight-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disease. Photo: OHSU

Human cloning at last: a stem cell of a specific patient was obtained for the first time in history through cloning

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Dendritic cell, from Wikipedia

Personalized medicine will enable the development of vaccines against cancerous tumors

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"Our innovative method, to the best of our knowledge, is the only prediction method currently available for finding the relationship and biological distance between any two selected genes, which makes it possible to discover the single gene responsible for any disease," explains lead researcher Yuval Eitan from Rockefeller University

The map of the connections between all the genes in a person

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Illustrative photo of Ein Bionic, the Israeli company Nano Retina

Medical technology - the medicine of tomorrow

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Cover of the June 2012 issue of Scientific American Israel

The double-edged sword of personal medicine

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Distribution of drugs in the body using nanoparticles. Image: University of Copenhagen

I have a dream: about nano-submarines and bacteria that protect against heart attacks

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The science system was able to predict that in the future we will be able to predict the future

Futurism - what's next?

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Figure 3 Culture of human embryonic stem cells growing on a substrate of mouse-derived fibroblast cells. The substrate cells are tens of times larger than the embryonic stem cells. Photographed with a light microscope at 20x magnification. Courtesy of Prof. Nissim Benvanisti, The Hebrew University

Stem cells in the service of medicine

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Prof. Ariel Miller

The international conference for personalized medicine - P4H - will be held in October 2010 in Haifa

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