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May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month

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May 15, 2019... May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month – the perfect time, as we head into summer, to think about protecting our skin. The American Cancer Society predicts that in 2019, almost 100,000 American adults will be diagnosed with invasive melanoma, and while that number may not be massive, it’s important, as melanoma is the deadliest of the skin cancers. Treatments are often ineffective; thus, early intervention is crucial.

TAGS: Cancer, Cancer treatment, Immunotherapy

Gilead Buys Kite Pharma, Founded by Israelis, for $11.9 Billion
Gilead Buys Kite Pharma, Founded by Israelis, for $11.9 Billion

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Aug 29, 2017... The headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California Credit: Eric Risberg, AP
The almost $12 billion that Gilead Sciences agreed on Monday to pay for Kite Pharma is testament not only to Israeli innovation but also to the entrepreneurship of Kite’s Israeli founder and CEO, Prof. Arie Belldegrun, and his ability to leverage a vast store of medical knowledge and Wall Street connections.

TAGS: Cancer, Cancer treatment, Immunotherapy

Target: Blood Cancers
Target: Blood Cancers

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Feb 06, 2017... Our blood is our very life force, performing the basic functions that keep us alive. It carries nutrients and oxygen to our cells, and bears away metabolic waste. And yet it also plays a role in a number of all-too-common diseases, such as blood cancers. In fact, according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer every three minutes.
Blood cancers begin in the bone marrow, where blood cells are produced, or in the lymphatic system, which removes excess fluids from the body’s tissues and produces immune cells. In most blood cancers, uncontrolled growth of abnormal blood cells interferes with the development and function of normal, healthy blood cells.

TAGS: Women, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Blood

Profiling a Killer in Warm Blood
Profiling a Killer in Warm Blood

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Dec 06, 2018... Tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution, and therapy resistance are revealed using single-cell profiling of multiple myeloma patients
REHOVOT, ISRAEL —December 6, 2018—Cancer arises when cells lose control. Deciphering the “blueprint” of cancer cells – outlining how cancer cells hijack specific pathways for uncontrolled proliferation – will lead to more efficient ways to fight it. Now, in a joint effort, scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and clinicians from major hemato-oncology departments in Israel have successfully created detailed profiles of myeloma cancer in both pre-cancer stages, in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients, as well as post-treatment and relapse. These detailed blueprints will help in future precision diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

TAGS: Technology, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Immune system, Blood

Science Tips, October 2015
Science Tips, October 2015

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Oct 26, 2015... Of the hundreds of genes that can be mutated in a single case of melanoma, only a handful may be true “drivers” of cancer. In research that recently appeared in Nature Genetics, a Weizmann Institute of Science team has now revealed one of the drivers of a particularly deadly subset of melanomas that is seeing a rise in new cases. This gene is a newly identified member of a group of genes called tumor suppressor genes, and is mutated in some 5.4% of melanomas. Furthermore, its expression was found to be lost in over 30% of human melanomas; this loss, according to the research, was associated with reduced patient survival. The discovery might open new doors to understanding how this cancer grows and spreads, and may lead in the future to new directions in treatment.

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Why Chemotherapy Fails
Why Chemotherapy Fails

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May 29, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 29, 2012—The fight against cancer is not won in a single battle: long after a cancer has been beaten into remission, it can return. The reason for this is under debate, and much is unclear. New research led by Weizmann Institute scientists shows that, at least for one type of blood cancer, the source of cancer recurrence is in a set of cells that do not proliferate as quickly as regular cancer cells, and thus are able to survive chemotherapy. The findings, which appear in the journal Blood, have some important implications for the future of the war on cancer.

TAGS: Cancer, Cancer treatment, Stem cells, Blood

Study Shows How Cell Types Communicate
Study Shows How Cell Types Communicate

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Feb 13, 2018... Irene Kim
A new study based on a cross-continent collaboration between researchers at Yale and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel demonstrates how different cell types communicate with each other.
Researchers at the two institutions have shown that two different cell types common to most human tissues — macrophages and fibroblasts — “talk” to each other through small signaling molecules known as growth factors. Although scientists have conducted decades of research on signaling within one cell type, not much was previously known about communication between different cell types. The study was published in the journal Cell on Feb. 8.

TAGS: Cancer, Biology, Mathematics

Safer Chemo, Thanks to Israeli Math
Safer Chemo, Thanks to Israeli Math

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Oct 10, 2012... Not all white blood cells are created equal. Image via www.shutterstock.com
Waning white blood-cell counts in chemotherapy patients are commonly taken as a warning of an increased risk of infection.
Now, a new Israeli study suggests that it is critical to evaluate not only the quantity of these “neutrophil” blood cells essential to immunity against infection, but also their quality, which varies from one patient to another.

TAGS: Medicine, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Bacteria, Mathematics

Understanding Immunotherapy: History and Lifesaving Breakthroughs
Understanding Immunotherapy: History and Lifesaving Breakthroughs

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Nov 01, 2016... Understanding Immunotherapy: History and Lifesaving Breakthroughs

TAGS: Cancer, Cancer treatment, Immune system, Immunotherapy, Multiple sclerosis, Leukemia, Copaxone

Biological Computer Diagnoses Cancer and Produces the Drug – in a Test Tube
Biological Computer Diagnoses Cancer and Produces the Drug – in a Test Tube

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Sep 12, 2011... The world’s smallest computer (around a trillion can fit in a drop of water) might one day go on record again as the tiniest medical kit. Made entirely of biological molecules, this computer was successfully programmed to identify — in a test tube — changes in the balance of molecules in the body that indicate the presence of certain cancers, to diagnose the type of cancer, and to react by producing a drug molecule to fight the cancer cells.

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