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A little more than two centuries ago, an English novelist named Frances Burney endured a “terrible operation” to remove a tumour after having breast cancer diagnosed. Burney spent more than 17 agonising minutes under the scalpel as her surgeon in Paris cut away at her breast – all without anaesthetic. She was 58 when the mastectomy was performed and lived another three decades, a happy outcome that went against the terrible odds faced by cancer patients at the time. Fast forward to to...

12 TAU researchers ranked top 50 in their disciplines Stanford University study ranks 333 Tel Aviv University faculty in top 2% worldwide in their respective fields, based on publications and citations. Photo of a Tel Aviv University building by Roman Yanushevsky/Shutterstock.com A new study from Stanford University in PLOS Biology identified the top 2 percent of researchers in various disciplines worldwide, based on publications, citations, and impact. The list includes 160,000 researchers fr...

Tel Aviv University, Israel, develops genome editing system to destroy cancer cells Posted by: Admin December 17, 2020 in PR Comments Off on Tel Aviv University, Israel, develops genome editing system to destroy cancer cells Using the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 winning method, of genome editingCRISPR/Cas9, a research team atTel Aviv University  has developed a breakthrough treatment to eliminate cancer cells.The treatment has no side effects andmay increase life expectancy in brain an...