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    Weizmann Global Gathering 2014: Partners in Scientific Advancement, Prof. Michal Neeman

    Prof. Michal Neeman spoke at the 2014 Global Gathering session, Partners in Scientific Advancement, about why it's so important for us to get high-resolution images of cancer. Today's instrumentation allows scientists to actually observe cancer in the body, providing invaluable new data. Of course, staying on top of the technology, much less knowing how to maximize its use, is also a challenge.

    October 29, 2014

  • Fighting Cancer
    Weizmann Global Gathering 2014: Partners in Scientific Advancement, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, one of today's most engaging science communicators and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,"" managed to compress the whole history of cancer studies, from primitive to sophisticated, as well a look to the future, into a few comprehensible, enjoyable minutes.

  • Fighting Cancer
    Why Cancer Drugs May Work Better While You Sleep
    <em>Time</em>

    Time reports on the recent finding by Weizmann scientists that our bodies fight cancer better during the day, meaning that nighttime might be much better for administering cancer drugs. This “happy accident” is an example of how basic research can shed light on important issues.

    October 09, 2014

  • Fighting Cancer
    Tumors Might Grow Faster at Night

    Work, school, errands, commutes … it makes sense that we are more stressed during the day than when we're sleeping. And we do, in fact, produce more glucocorticoid (GC) – aka the stress hormone – during our waking hours. Now Weizmann scientists have found that GC also helps suppress cancer growth, meaning that perhaps we should be administering cancer drugs at night, while our bodies aren't fighting the cancer themselves.

    October 06, 2014

  • Fighting Cancer
    The Transformation
    The New Yorker

    Writing in The New Yorker, Dr. Jerome Groopman examines whether controlling cancer is a more viable option than trying to destroy it. A new treatment for the often-fatal acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) aims to do just that by forcing immature cells to grow up, rather than turn into leukemia cells – a breakthrough that builds on the work of Weizmann's Prof. Leo Sachs.

    September 15, 2014

  • Fighting Cancer
    Leukemia Cells are Addicted to a Healthy Gene

    Leukemia cells are able to stay alive, aggressively dividing, virtually forever… but how? New Weizmann research suggests that about 25 percent of the time, there is a “balance of terror” between the cancer-promoting gene and a second, normal version. This normal gene functions alongside the mutation, keeping the cells both cancerous and alive.

    September 29, 2013

  • Fighting Cancer
    A Biotech Tale: The Israeli Scientist Who is Waging War on Cancer
    Haaretz

    Mickey Kertesz, who received his doctorate in computational biology from the Weizmann Institute's Feinberg Graduate School, has co-founded a startup that has streamlined DNA-sequencing techniques. He believes the technology will change the battlefield on which scientists fight diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and depression.

    July 13, 2013

  • Fighting Cancer
    Israelis Give a Double Punch to Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
    Israel21c

    Triple negative breast cancer targets young black or Hispanic women and those of Jewish Ashkenazi descent, and standard therapies don't work for long. In a novel approach, Weizmann scientists engineered a two-front attack by binding different antibodies to different parts of growth receptors. A vaccination against cancer is their ultimate goal.

    May 27, 2013

  • Fighting Cancer
    Therapy Programs Patients’ Own Cells to Fight Cancer
    The Philadelphia Inquirer

    A decades-old “audacious idea” by Weizmann's Prof. Zelig Eshhar helped create a cancer treatment that has now led to full remissions in almost 20 adult and pediatric blood-cancer patients. Considered the future of cancer research by many, the therapy programs the patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack cancer.

    May 20, 2013

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