murine model

Research team: Back row (right to left): Prof. Moran Rubinstein, Prof. Keren Avraham and Prof. Aviva Petal-Wolevsky. Front row (right to left): Daniel Gelber, Mor Yam, Shir Quinn. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Israeli researchers on the way to a cure for one of the world's rarest diseases

Following a request from the family of Adam, an 8-year-old boy suffering from an extremely rare genetic disease, researchers from Tel Aviv University developed a revolutionary mouse model that helps understand the disease and test effective treatments.
Link to the image of the spinal cords (photo: Dr. Linor Alfahal, from the journal Cell (Reports Medicine. On the left - a section of the spinal cord of a mouse expressing the disease without treatment, and on the right a section of the spinal cord of a mouse expressing the disease and treated with MIF:

An innovative approach to ALS disease: increasing MIF protein levels in nerve cells

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An international study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with colleagues from Germany, the USA and Canada, delved into the potential of increasing protein levels (MIF) as a new approach to dealing with muscular dystrophy (ALS). The findings of the innovative study have been published
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