Items tagged with “blood”
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Maintaining Blood Vessel Integrity
2009-09-17T16:53:03-04:00
Diabetes-related complications—including blindness, stroke, kidney disease, and even gangrene—are largely due to vascular defects. Research by Institute scientists aimed at studying the adhesion and motility of cell...
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Science Tips, May 2009
2009-05-04T20:50:00-04:00
Stopgap DNA Repair Needs a Second Step One can have a dream, two can make that dream so real, goes a popular song. Now a Weizmann Institute study has revealed that it takes two to perform an essential form of DNA repair. P...
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The Fat Factor
2005-11-01T09:46:00-04:00
Diabetes has become epidemic in the Western world: One out of 12 suffers from type 2 (adult onset) diabetes, and the number of diabetics (presently 150 million worldwide) is expected to double in the next 20 years. Though ...
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Blocking Type 1 Diabetes
2002-06-01T18:23:00-04:00
Weizmann Institute scientists develop the first successful vaccine for Type 1 diabetes A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science has developed a vaccine that halts...