Cancer
Lighting the Way for a New Cancer Treatment
A potential new treatment for prostate cancer is being conducted on people who failed to respond to radiation therapy.
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Targeting Tumors: A New Strategy for Prostate Cancer Treatment
Weizmann scientists are fighting prostate cancer by combining chlorophyll and light. This powerful treatment may work for other cancers, too.
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p53 and Personalized Medicine
January 2010
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 30 years ago, Prof. Varda Rotter was among the first scientists to study a little-known gene called p53. “We didn’t know then that it...
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To Die for the Cause
Prof. Abraham Amsterdam studies the role of cell suicide in both normal and cancerous ovarian cells.
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The Cancer Killer
Weizmann scientists have for years been studying the p53, the most "glamorous" of all tumor suppressor genes. They were the first to clone it.
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Maintaining Blood Vessel Integrity
Research by institute scientists aimed at studying the adhesion and motility of cells in blood vessels may help control the debilitating complications of diabetes -...
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Science Briefs
Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed the structure of the MMP-9 protein, which is often produced by migrating cancer cells and in certain autoimmune diseases....