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Calculating Whiskers Send Precise Information to the Brain

28.01.2016

Brain & Behavior

Organs that sense through movement are more complex than thought

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Germs, Humans and Numbers

28.01.2016

Nutrition, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms

The number of bacteria in our bodies has been revised downward

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Your Symptoms? Evolution’s Way of Telling You to Stay Home

07.01.2016

Brain & Behavior, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Research suggests that our selfish genes are behind the aches and fever

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Weizmann Institute Drug, TOOKAD® Soluble, Approved for Prostate Cancer Therapy in Mexico

04.01.2016

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

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How Cells Spit It Out

01.01.2016

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Structural Biology

How do the cells that secrete saliva or tears handle the load?

The Homebody RNA

The Homebody RNA

01.01.2016

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Why does some RNA stay in the nucleus rather than rushing off to make proteins?

Bones of mice at different ages, imaged with three-dimensional computer tomography. A core element at the center of the bone (highlighted in different colors) enabled the scientists to align different bones for comparison

Bones Don’t Get the Drift

19.12.2015

Evolution and Development

How do bones retain their proportions as they grow?

Mutations shed light on cancer

Rare Disease is a Lens on Cancer

24.11.2015

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

In children, lack of a protein causes a dangerous disease. Why do cancer cells suppress the same protein?

To understand the relationships between the “words” encoded in the retinal responses to film clips, the researchers analyzed and plotted them on a 3-D graph on which they attempted to preserve the relations between the words. Each balloon covers all the words that belong to the same sematic cluster. The fact that the balloons are so distinct shows the underlying “synonym” organization of neuron communication

A Thesaurus for the Brain’s “Language”

20.11.2015

Brain & Behavior

The brain’s communications networks may use synonyms to avoid misunderstandings

gut bacteria

Blood Sugar Levels in Response to Foods Are Highly Individual

19.11.2015

Personalized Medicine, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The largest study of its kind supports the need for personalized dietary recommendations

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