Know Thy Enemy: MeMed’s Diagnostic Reduces Antibiotic Overuse in U.S. Trial
Inside Precision Medicine September 30, 2024
The host immune response technology takes a critical step toward discerning bacterial from viral infections to improve and expand patient care
As a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute studying systems biology, Eran Eden frequently found himself with a peer, Kfir Oved, an MD-PhD candidate at the time, playing a “game” in the evenings in their grandmothers’ kitchens while eating blintzes, a classic of Eastern European cuisine.
The “game” they played over plates with these rolled pancakes stuffed with, in this case, savory mushrooms—blintzes are also often stuffed with sweet cheese and jam for dessert—didn’t involve cards or dice.. Instead, grandma’s cooking fueled the quintessential scientist’s pastime of identifying and solving a problem that would change the course of history.
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