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Heart disease and cancer and drug treatments – interactions

Between the heart and cancer: Technion researchers reveal surprising interrelationships between heart disease and cancerous tumors

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Researchers at the Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion present complex interrelationships between heart disease and cancer, in the hope that the findings will lead to improved treatment of both diseases.
A microscopic image of tissue stained in purple, red, and green to identify various cellular components.

Two ways to a broken heart, two ways to heal

air pollution Illustration: depositphotos.com

The tiny killer: air pollution is ranked as the second risk factor for death in the world

The State of the World Air report reveals that air pollution caused the death of more than 8 million people in one year. Who is at high risk, what is the situation in Israel and what can be done?
Japanese women wearing kimono. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A new study has discovered three main genetic groups in Japan and not two as previously thought

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A new study analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 3256 people across Japan, using the Japan Biobank database. The division is: a group in Okinawa, related to an ancient population living in Japan, mud in northeastern Japan, possibly related
Photomicrograph of a biopsy from a patient's lungs. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Towards a new generation of treatments for old age diseases

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How a conventional MRI (left) and the home device (right) work

A home MRI scanner may revolutionize medicine

In ten years, it may be possible to find ambulances - or hospitals on wheels - that can reach multi-casualty incidents and provide the doctor in the field with a clear 3D image of each injured person. Doctors will no longer be needed
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 has 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
A "ghost" heart is a pig heart that has been prepared so that it can be transplanted into humans. Provided by Doris Taylor

"Ghost" hearts from a pig and the patient's stem cells will replace the need for heart donations

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Today, patients needing a heart transplant have to join a waiting list, and hearts become available when someone else dies. Because there are not enough hearts, only critically ill patients are put on the waiting list
Cardiac tissue regeneration under the microscope. In the picture you can see thin green stripes that mark the cleavage furrows that form between the heart muscle cells (in red) that are dividing. The laboratory of Prof. Eldad Tzhor, Weizmann Institute

Heal the heart with the help of cancerous processes

Researchers from the laboratory of Prof. Eldad Tzhor from the Weizmann Institute discovered that given the right signal, mature cardiac muscle cells in mice can revert to an earlier developmental state and replace the scar tissue with tissue
Illustration: Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute

the heart key

Myocardial infarction in the mouse. Marked in red - the cells of the immune system in the damaged area

Blue is good for the heart

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A venomous cone in action. Quickly and efficiently eliminates fish, worms and other bystanders that peck in its path

The snail's bite

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Helix-shaped cholesterol crystals. Digital processing of data obtained from four different crystals in different cells using soft x-ray imaging under cold conditions (cryo-SXT)

The bad crystal

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Illustration: Patrick J. Lynch.

A new wireless pacemaker may prevent common complications

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Stem cells could restore scar tissue or prevent its formation after a heart attack and treat heart failure. Illustration: Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe, MD, cardiologist.

Treatment of heart failure by means of stem cell injection receives a "standard mark"

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Dr. Joachim Bahar. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

keep pace

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Image: pixabay.

Can gene therapy cure heart disease?

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The process of widening a blocked artery with a stent. Photo: shutterstock

The Ministry of Health approved the use of a biodegradable stent

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Cross section of a human lung infected with cancer. The white block above is his tape and the black areas indicate that the original owner of the lung smoked. From Wikimedia

A new study conducted in the USA: within minutes of smoking a cigarette immediate damage is caused to the DNA

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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

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Lung on a chip. Image courtesy of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Development of a human lung on a chip

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Right: Dr. Eldad Tzhor and Itamar Harel. Photo: Weizmann Institute

One in the mouth and the same one in the heart - the connection between the facial muscles and the heart muscle

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

The Broken Hearts Facility Club

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

Drink milk and live longer

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