Life Sciences

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Blue-Sky Dye Spells Hope for Improving Heart Function

05.12.2019

Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The small molecule reduces damaging inflammation and improves heart function in mouse models of heart attack

Rivka Dikstein

New Molecules Precisely Target Mutant Disease Gene

02.12.2019

Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

These molecules may prevent only some of a crucial gene's activities without affecting others

Daniella Goldfarb

Prof. Daniella Goldfarb on The Scientists' Channel

28.11.2019

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology

In this video, Prof. Goldfarb explains a technique she and her team developed for imaging proteins inside cells

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The Greenest Diet: Bacteria Switch to Eating Carbon Dioxide

27.11.2019

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Such bacteria may, in the future, contribute to new, carbon-efficient technologies

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Neurobiology News

12.11.2019

Brain & Behavior

Three papers by Weizmann Institute of Science neuroscientists are slated to appear in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience.

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An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure

06.11.2019

Brain & Behavior

A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs

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For the First Time: A Method for Measuring Animal Personality

04.11.2019

Brain & Behavior, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Genetics

A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behavior and personality

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Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

30.10.2019

Robotics and Machine Learning, Brain & Behavior, Evolution and Development

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How Cone Snail Venom Kills

24.10.2019

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A newly discovered mechanism may lead to better potassium- blocking drugs and improved natural pesticides

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Ebola Antibodies at Work

07.10.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the disease

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Prof. Idit Shachar; Professor of Immunology and Head of the Office for the Advancement of Women in Science and Gender Equality at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Photo: Yael Ilan

Paving the Way for the Future of Women Scientists

Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding

The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain

Prof. Bat Sheva Eylon

Prof. Bat Sheva Eylon

Inhibitory mouse neurons – viewed under a microscope

An Essential Balancing Act: Neurons Adapt to Stay Steady

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The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain

How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the World

Advanced Mouse Embryos Grown Outside the Uterus