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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

radiation poisoning

Pluri employees at the Israeli biotech firm's cell therapy production facility in Haifa. (Courtesy/Michael Brikman)
April 20, 2025, 4:12 pm
In case of a nuclear event, Ukraine to use Israeli placenta-based emergency treatment
Amid rising threat from Russia, Pluri partners with Ukrainian blood bank to stockpile remedy for deadly radiation poisoning that uses cells grown from donated placentas
By Sharon Wrobel
A Pluri employee at one of the company's bioreactors. (Courtesy)
September 5, 2023, 3:11 pm
Israel’s Pluri wins NIH contract for drug that could save lives in nuclear event
Company aims for FDA approval so that its novel cell therapy for radiation sickness can be eligible for US Strategic National Stockpile
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 'OL3' under construction next to OL2 and OL1 nuclear reactors in Eurajoki, southwestern Finland, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto)
June 30, 2020, 11:24 am
UN says source of Nordic radioactivity still unclear, as Russia eyed
Moscow has yet to report back to International Atomic Energy Agency over high concentration of isotopes recorded in Finland, southern Scandinavia and the Arctic
By AP
A woman cries at the Chernobyl victims' memorial in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on April 26, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Anatolii Stepanov)
April 26, 2016, 7:57 pm
Etched in their mind: Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl
World’s worst nuclear accident killed thousands and spewed radiation across Europe, forcing a global rethink of atomic fuel
By DMYTRO VLASOV
Iraqi security forces, in charge of the port security, take part in an exercise to simulate a terrorist attack on February 8, 2016 at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr near the southern city of Basra. (AFP / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI)
February 21, 2016, 6:43 pm
Iraq says it located missing radioactive material
Iridium-192 belonging to Turkish oil company found near gas station 3 months after it disappeared from US-owned facility
By AFP
Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)
March 4, 2015, 5:34 pm
Israeli radiation disease treatment passes major hurdle
The NIH is relying on Pluristem’s placenta-based stem cell treatment as a worst-case insurance policy
By David Shamah
ILLUSTRATIVE: A toy Space Pilot X Ray Gun (photo credit: CC BY, Joost J. Bakker, Flickr)
June 19, 2013, 8:57 pm
Defending Israel with X-rays
Undercover operation nabs men who turned to Jewish organizations for help in funding radiation weapon
Blue tarp covers the entrance to Yasser Arafat's mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The remains of the late Palestinian leader were exhumed from his grave on Tuesday so international forensic experts could search for additional clues to his death (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
November 27, 2012, 4:26 pm
Results on possible Arafat poisoning expected in three months, Palestinian doctor says
Former PA president’s body exhumed, re-buried in Ramallah military ceremony
By Mohammed Daraghmeh and ToI Staff
Journalists stand outside late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tarp-covered Mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Saturday, Nov 24 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
November 27, 2012, 7:57 am
Arafat’s body exhumed, bone samples to be tested for radiation poisoning
Team of experts from Russia, France and Switzerland taking part in procedure; body to be re-buried in a military ceremony
By ToI Staff and AP
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