No Rest for Weary Immune Cells

An advanced method for investigating the activity of single cells could lead to better immunotherapy drugs 14.01.2019 Postdoctoral fellows (l-r) Drs. Hanji Li, Yaniv Lubling and Ido Yofe Why do some cancer patients respond well to immunotherapy, while others do not?...

Where the Blood-Brain Barrier Breaks Down

The cells that keep blood vessels in the pituitary permeable to hormones may hold the key to future drug delivery 07.01.2019 Blood vessels of the zebrafish pituitary before (left) and after (right) inhibition of permeability The so-called blood-brain barrier is a...

The Immune System’s Fountain of Youth

Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics 31.12.2018 Drug treatment eliminates senescent cells from tissues of old mice. The blue staining shows senescent cells in lung and liver tissue. The amount of the...

The Importins of Anxiety

The discovery of a new neural mechanism underlying anxiety points to possible treatments 11.12.2018 In genetically engineered mice lacking the protein called importin alpha-5 (right), a molecule called MeCP2 (red), known to affect anxiety behaviors, stayed on the...

Profiling a Killer in Warm Blood

Israeli scientists and physicians develop a new technology for profiling the unique genetic makeup of myeloma tumor cells that will allow better diagnosis and treatment 06.12.2018 Tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution and therapy resistance revealed using single cell...

FAS Track to Fighting Antibiotic-Resistant TB

Solving the structure of a multi-enzyme bacterial complex may help antibiotics do their job against the deadly disease 26.11.2018 Cryo-EM micrograph of Mtb FAS-I particles. FAS-I particles are clearly visible in the micrographs. Scale bar represents 50 nm. ......

Biomedicine and beyond

Achievements of the Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine DATE: NOVEMBER 25, 2018 SOURCE: WEIZMANN MAGAZINE VOLUME 14 “From its inception, the G-INCPM was envisioned as a place where scientists would come together and challenge themselves to achieve a...