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Illustrative image: cancer cells against a backdrop of DNA (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)
How cancer cells survive chemo: Israeli researchers find ‘guardian proteins’ protect tumors
By Diana Bletter
Ben-Gurion University scientists show that destroying such proteins forces cancer cells to self-destruct, in potential key to overcoming chemotherapy resistance
A bacterial cell (elongated shape in the center) inside a glioblastoma tumor cell, as seen through an electron microscope. The black dots within the bacterium are engineered antibodies carrying gold particles that bind specifically to a component found only in bacterial cell envelopes and not in human cells. (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)
November 14, 2025, 6:35 pm
New study finds bacteria in brain tumors play ‘surprising’ role in cancer growth
Scientists at Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University and Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine say patients with more bacteria in their brain tumors have ‘poorer survival outcomes’
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Ayal Hendel, Bar Ilan University. Goodman Faculty of LIfe(Courtesy/Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
September 2, 2025, 10:48 am
Israeli researcher joins EU cell therapy initiative for blood cancers and tumors
Bar-Ilan University scientist part of €8 million consortium to ensure accuracy in CAR-T cell therapy, an immunotherapy using CRISPR-Cas9, in European hospitals
By Diana Bletter
File: Illustration of a breast cancer cell (Christoph Burgstedt via iStock by Getty Images)
January 17, 2023, 1:03 pm
Israeli scientists say substance prevents cancer’s spread in mice with 90% success
On warpath against secondary tumors, scientists believe they’ve found a way to stop cancer cells from entering blood, moving around the body; but solution not yet in medicine form
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: Doctors reading an x-ray for signs of cancer (nd3000 via iStock by Getty Images)
December 8, 2022, 12:26 pm
2 common drugs may help protect against secondary cancer, small Israeli study finds
Darlin and Etopan appear to cut the chances of cancer returning elsewhere in body by reducing inflammation and stress, according to peer-reviewed research
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: minute gas bubbles similar to those used in the new Tel Aviv University method for exploding tumors (Love Employee via iStock by Getty Images)
November 24, 2022, 2:37 pm
Israeli lab ‘explodes’ mice tumors using gas, in possible alternative to surgery
Bloodstream injected with minuscule gas bubbles which scientists ‘detonate’ using ultrasound, so that they rip through cancerous tumor; method described in peer-reviewed study
By Nathan Jeffay
Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, and party leaders at a swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 16, 2022, 1:07 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 16: Mixed reactions for 25th Knesset; MDs use new tumor tech
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses the new parliament and activists at COP27, as health and science reporter Nathan Jeffay looks at sperm count research, tumor tech
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: a man running (BartekSzewczyk via iStock by Getty Images)
November 16, 2022, 12:06 pm
Running reduces chance of some cancers by 72%, Israeli scientists find
Peer-reviewed study from Tel Aviv University shows aerobic activity conditions organs to snatch sugar away from tumors, impairing their ability to grow and spread
By Nathan Jeffay
In this image commissioned by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science to illustrate new research, artists give a conceptual representation of fungi growing within cancerous tumors. (Ella Maru Studio)
October 2, 2022, 9:56 am
Fungus is telltale cancer sign, possibly screenable by blood test: Israel-US study
Many tumors are teeming with fungi that shed DNA into blood, and researchers say blood analysis could offer treasure trove of information to detect and to shape treatment
By Nathan Jeffay
Tel Aviv University brain immunologist Prof. Lior Mayo (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)
September 1, 2022, 1:31 pm
Brain tumors vanish in mice after Israeli study finds and destroys ‘power source’
Work starting on human drug after researchers discover specific brain cells are giving glioblastoma tumors energy and, when removed, tumors wither
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: nerve cells. Technion scientists report that they have slowed tumour growth in mice by attacking nerve cells. (ktsimage via iStock by Getty Images)
October 22, 2021, 3:04 pm
Israeli scientists halve growth of cancer tumors in mice, using ‘GPS particles’
Hoping to establish a new method for fighting cancer, a team from the Technion attacked nerve cells that help tumor growth, reporting significant success in peer-reviewed research
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustration for demonstration of 3D printing of a tumor in a brain microenvironment according to a computed 3D model. (Tel Aviv University)
August 18, 2021, 11:56 pm
Israeli researchers tout ‘breakthrough’ 3D bioprints of active tumor
Scientists at Tel Aviv University boast development of technology will help find optimal treatments for each tumor and accelerate future treatments
By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay
Police officer Barak Daddon speaks to Channel 13 news (video screenshot)
July 3, 2021, 3:16 pm
Cop’s life saved by a rock to the head — and the tumor it revealed
Barak Daddon was injured during a Haredi funeral at the height of the pandemic. Then his CT scan showed a large growth in his skull
By ToI Staff
Chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
June 15, 2021, 6:49 pm
Aging gene may make brain cancer chemo-proof for some, Israeli study shows
Finding solves the mystery of why older people often fare worse in treatment for glioblastoma, and opens new treatment target, say Ben Gurion University scientists
By Nathan Jeffay
The baby born October 14, 2020, after an ex utero intrapartum procedure at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center)
October 15, 2020, 1:00 pm
Halfway through birth, Tel Aviv doctors open baby’s tumor-blocked airways
With the baby’s head in doctors’ hands and the body still in the mother’s uterus, a staff of 30 bypassed his tumor, avoiding fatal oxygen deprivation
By Nathan Jeffay
A patient on a cancer ward (iStock)
July 31, 2020, 9:15 am
Israeli scientists find new way to predict cancer’s deadly spread through body
Secondary growths cause 90% of cancer deaths. Haifa team says that, quite accidentally, it has found a way to use cells from primary tumor to instantly predict if metastasis likely
By Nathan Jeffay
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