Life Sciences

Cell Reports cover: Illustration by Dr. Rita Gelin-Licht showing yeast cells mating through extensions

Yeast Side Story

16.07.2012

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

When yeast cells want to mate, they grow extensions in the direction of potential partners

money on the brain illustration

Losing Money, Emotions and Evolution

12.06.2012

Brain & Behavior

Mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger

12.06.2012

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A small molecule developed at the Weizmann Institute prevents a cancer-causing message from entering the cell nucleus

Living Microprocessor Tunes in to Feedback

Living Microprocessor Tunes in to Feedback

12.06.2012

Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Math & Computer Science

What keeps the machinery for chopping functional pieces out of certain long RNA strands from cutting up the wrong kinds of RNA?

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PAIRS

11.06.2012

Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Robotics and Machine Learning

Proteins must match up correctly to catch a ride from one site to another in the cell

Budding wing from irradiated fruit fly larvae, magnified about 80 times; various aspects of apoptosis in a regular fly (left column) are compared with the mutant fly lacking the drice gene (right column). Upper row: “reporter” proteins are highlighted with green fluorescent protein; middle row: the cutting up of these reporter proteins by caspases; bottom row: numerous cells die by apoptosis in the regular fruit fly (left), whereas almost no apoptosis occurs in the fly lacking the Drice caspase (right)

The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Cellular Fortune

11.06.2012

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology

What separates the cells that are prone to suicide from those that are long lived?

Mouse hippocampus containing two different types of channelrhodopsins. The green fluorescence marks axons entering into the hippocampal CA1 region, and the red fluorescence is expressed in the dentate gyrus part of the hippocampus (inverted V-shaped structure)

Shine a Light

11.06.2012

Brain & Behavior

Dr. Ofer Yizhar investigates the brain’s circuitry with tiny pulses of light

rewriting DNA illustration

Rewriting DNA to Understand What it Says

31.05.2012

Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Math & Computer Science, Biotechnology

New Weizmann Institute technology speeds up DNA “rewriting” and measures the effects of the changes in living cells

Leukemia cells. Image: Wikimedia commons, NIH

Why Chemotherapy Fails

29.05.2012

Biochemistry, Cancer, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Research led by Weizmann Institute scientists shows why leukemia often returns

(l-r) Ido Kaminsky, Prof. Eitan Reuveny, Ruth Meller, Raz Palty and Dr. Adi Raveh. Steady supply

Taking Stock of Calcium

29.05.2012

What keeps a cellular “warehouse” from overfilling?

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