A new study conducted at the Scojen Institute for Synthetic Biology at Reichman University’s Dina Recanati School of Medicine announces the launch of the ChiTaRS 8.0 database, the world’s largest collection of chimeric genes (gene fusions) found in humans with cancer and other chronic diseases. The project, led by Dr. Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, head of the Genomics and Computational Biology Lab, together with doctoral students Dylan D'Souza and Olwumi Giwa of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, marks a significant step in advancing the understanding of chimeric genes and supporting scientists and clinicians in their pursuit to develop more effective and personalized cancer treatments.

As the body of research grows around the potential promise of psychedelic medications in psychiatry, many questions and challenges remain.  The January issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry features a series of articles, including new research, reviews and commentaries, on the use of these treatments. 

Fear of spiders, open spaces, fear of heights? Virtual reality comes to the rescue as a tool to treat phobias, prove researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian University.

Monitoring the changes caused in the brain at the molecular level by cancer and other neurological pathologies in a non-invasive way is one of the great challenges of biomedical research. A new technique, still in the experimental stage, achieves this by introducing light into the brains of mice using a very thin probe. The innovation, which is published today in the journal Nature Methods, is ledby an international team including groups from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).