Anesthetize Nerve Cells to Shrink Breast Tumors?
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative treatment for breast cancer, based on analgesic nanoparticles that target the nervous system. The researchers…
Potential ALS Drug Gets Boost Toward Preclinical Trials
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – A new class of small molecules for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases, is being developed at…
Tissue Engineering Could Provide Diabetes Cure
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – A novel approach to treating type 2 diabetes under development at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology uses tissue engineering to create muscle cells that absorb…
New Study Offers Possible Immunotherapy Breakthrough for Cancer
Jon Schiller via Israel21c – For cancer immunotherapy to be most effective, a patient’s immune system must be able to “see” the tumor in question. “Hotspots” on cancer cells’ outer membranes can…
A Wearable Device That Soothes and Heals at Home
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – A mild pins-and-needles sensation encircled my forearm as the Healables sleeve was activated from Moshe Lebowitz’s smartphone. The intensity can be dialed up or down with…
Brain Stimulation Helps Elderly Walk and Talk at Same Time
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Walking and talking while chewing gum – it sounds like the start to a bad joke, but for older adults with mobility challenges, it’s no laughing…
A Blood Test That Can Identify Recurrent Cancer
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – When Asaf Zviran was diagnosed with cancer, he was doing operations research and R&D in the Israeli navy and earning his master’s degree at the…
Bio-Printed Blood Vessels Now Possible for Body Implants
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – The science of tissue engineering uses cells and biomolecules combined with scaffolds to repair, replace or regenerate a damaged body part with bio-identical tissue. But…
White Blood Cells May Be Harnessed to Boost Cancer Immunotherapy
Jon Schiller via Israel21c – White blood cells called Eosinophils can be “summoned” in order to fight cancer by both destroying the cancer cells directly as well as recruiting the immune…
Good Bacteria May Eliminate Bad Bacteria Better Than Antibiotics
Brian Blum via Israel21c – The bacteria wars are coming. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have pitted “good” bacteria against “bad” bacteria and the good guys, it appears, are winning. If the…
Inhaled Drug Could Treat Rare Cystic Fibrosis Mutations
Brian Blum via Israel21c – People living with cystic fibrosis (CF) received encouraging news in late 2019: A new Trikafta treatment combining three drugs – elexacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor –reduces…
10 Great Reasons to Love the Pomegranate
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Coaxing the edible seeds out of a pomegranate is a popular how-to topic. Some swear by the whack-with-a-wooden-spoon method; others massage out those ruby-red arils…
New Drug Candidate Could Boost Potential of Immunotherapy
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – One of the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment today is immunotherapy. Rather than flooding the body with toxic chemicals and radiation, this method recruits the…
Lung Changes Can Be Early Warning of Breast Cancer Spread
Michelle Marks via NaturalHealth365 – Changes in healthy lung tissue can be an early signal that the lung is preparing to receive breast cancer cells that are metastasizing — spreading to…
A Smartphone Technology to Diagnose Psychiatric Diseases
ISRAEL21c Staff via Israel21c – According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders such as clinical depression or schizophrenia. But they can…
