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Human Beta Cells Grown in a Culture

From BioMed Israel Week 2010: A Novel Therapeutic Method Based on the Ability of Stem Cells to Assist in Treating Juvenile Diabetes Will Replace the Insulin Injection Ramot, Tel Aviv University's technology transfer company, will present for the first time a therapeutic approach based on stem cells capability to assist in the treatment of juvenile diabetes, in the Israel BioMed Week 2010, which will be held on the 14th-16th of June in Tel Aviv. The main novelty of the treatment is a br...

A Novel Artificial Pancreas System

An aritifical pancreas system that maintains near-normal glucose levels by injecting both insulin and glucagon was succesfully demonstrated on a small number of patients An artificial pancreas system that closely mimics the body's blood sugar control mechanism was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of patients. The system, combining a blood glucose monitor and insulin pump technology with software that directs administration of insulin an...

A Israeli Drug-by-Design

A new drug devised by Prof. Eldar-Finkleman of Tel Aviv University may slow down Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases. No doubt about it: the science of biology is slowly evolving into bio-engineering. In the past few centuries, mankind was mostly limited to research of biology. Now that we’ve come to understand many of the basic facts of life, we can transform this knowledge into action by ‘building’ new drugs, molecules and even genes. One of the best examples of this n...

Champions Biotechnology Establishes a License with Ramot for the Development and Commercialization of a Tumor-Fixing Antibody

A new single-chain antibody fragment, identified by Tel Aviv University researchers as having the ability to fix a protein that’s mutated in more than 50 percent of human tumors, has been licensed to Champions Biotechnology for development and commercialization. Back when I was a first degree student of biology, I was sternly told that antibodies are only used for diagnostic purposes. It never struck me quite right. After all, in the body they’re an important part of the immune system. Am...