Life Sciences

Dr. Ido Amit

The Gene Control Hierarchy

29.11.2012

Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics

A new, automated method for mapping protein-DNA interactions may lead to advances in personalized medicine

Prostaglandins guard stem cells by increasing the production of an inhibitory factor in the mesenchymal bone marrow cells. Mesenchymal cells are marked with a green protein (left); the inhibitory factor is red (center). Combined image (right): Treatment with prostaglandins (bottom) increases the secretion of the inhibitory factor

How Stem Cells Stay Young

29.11.2012

Cancer, Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A rare subgroup of immune cells act as stem cell “bodyguards”

white smell illustration

The Smell of White

22.11.2012

Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists apply the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell

Prof. Rivka Dikstein

The Coupling Protein

18.11.2012

Biochemistry, Cancer, Genetics

A newly discovered protein may present a suitably narrow target for cancer treatments

Anat Arzi and Prof. Noam Sobel

A Lesson in Sleep Learning

18.11.2012

Brain & Behavior

Subjects did not recall learning, but their sniffs showed they had learned the night’s lesson

Prof. Dan Tawfik, Dr. Mikael Elias, Korina Goldin and Alon Wellner

Living with Arsenic

18.11.2012

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology

How do bacteria cope with toxins that resemble nutrients?

Dr. Nir Friedman

Immune Cells’ Flexible Choices

18.11.2012

Immunology, Genetics

Some immune receptors are created from random combinations of genes. But not everything is left to chance.

Illustration: attaching plastic “whiskers” to the fingers of blindfolded volunteers and asking them to carry out a location task

Learning a New Sense

05.11.2012

Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with ”whiskers”

Prostaglandins guard stem cells by increasing the production of an inhibitory factor in the mesenchymal bone marrow cells. Mesenchymal cells are marked with a green protein (left); the inhibitory factor is red (center). Combined image (right): Treatment with prostaglandins (bottom) increases the secretion of the inhibitory factor

Stem Cell Bodyguards

22.10.2012

Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Insights into rare immune cells that keep blood stem cells in a youthful state may lead to better treatments

Rejecting Arsenate

Rejecting Arsenate

22.10.2012

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms

Institute scientists reveal how bacteria living in toxic environments identify and expel the poison

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