New Cancer Treatment Fools the Immune System to Attack
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Immunotherapy holds perhaps the greatest promise for fighting cancer in the 21st century. Rather than bombarding the body with toxic chemicals, as in chemotherapy, immunotherapy utilizes the…
Can Herb-Infused Chocolate Solve Prediabetes Without Meds?
Brian Blum via Israel21c – In 1987, I went backpacking across Japan during the famous cherry blossom season. Unfortunately, I suffered from terrible allergies and my nose was running like a faulty…
One Step Closer to Lab-Made Mother’s Milk
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Baby formula is one of the products in severely short supply in the United States, due in part to the global supply chain crisis over the…
Coming Soon: Human Skin You Can Print at Home
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Imagine if you could pop a cartridge in your inkjet printer and custom print skin to conceal a scar or blemish instead of covering it…
Israeli Covid Drug Also Aids Cancer Immunotherapy Patients
Diana Bletter via Israel21c – Israeli biotechnology company Bonus BioGroup announced that its Covid drug, MesenCure, can also reduce life-threatening inflammatory overreaction in cancer patients treated with immunotherapy. A trial conducted…
Israeli Surgeons Correct Child’s Birth Defect with a 3D Printed Ear
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Israeli doctors attached a 3D-printed ear to a six-year-old boy born with microtia, a deformity that stops the development of a baby’s ear in the womb,…
Is Allergy Season Getting Worse?
Naama Barak via Israel21c – While this winter’s been a harsh one here in Israel, many people aren’t enjoying spring. And for good reason, too, since it involves weeks of blowing their…
Fruit-Veggie Dietary Supplement Could Keep Covid at Bay
Diana Bletter via Israel21c – Will dietary supplements become the new weapon against Covid-19? The answer may be yes, according to scientists from Tel Aviv University. In Pharmaceuticals, professors Ehud Gazit,…
Triggered by Stress, Cancer Cells Learn How to Survive
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – What enables cancer to spread and grow in different parts of the body? How does it become resistant to drugs? In an opinion piece in iScience,…
Novel Hyperthermic Treatment Offers Hope for Stage 4 Metastatic Cancer
Brian Blum via Israel21c – It’s one of the most heart wrenching moments in medicine and in life. The doctor informs a patient that his or her stage 4 cancer has metastasized…
Futuristic Tech Brings Healing Relaxation to Radiotherapy
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – The first day of cancer radiation therapy begins inside a simulator machine. The patient lies immobilized for up to 45 minutes while lasers and imaging…
Antibodies Perform Best After Covid Infection, Not Vaccine
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Over time, the number of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies falls in both previously infected and vaccinated people, but the performance of antibodies improves only after previous infection and…
Bioprinted Implant May Help Paralyzed People Walk Again
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Medical science has not yet found a way to restore walking ability in someone paralyzed from a traumatic spinal cord injury. Within a few years, a…
Gut Inflammation? You Might Not Need That Colonoscopy
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Undergoing a colonoscopy is no picnic. It is invasive, frightening and likely the butt of all your friends’ jokes. But thanks to a new method developed in…
The Ingenious Lab Where You Can Hear Sights and Feel Sounds
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Iddo Wald shows me two abstract shapes, one angular and the other rounded. “One of these shapes is called Bouba and the other is Kiki. Which…
