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The Lazy Bacterium

27.08.2018

Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology

A new model of bacterial growth shows that a certain amount of idleness may enable the cell to adapt quickly to a change in fortune

Urin Weill

Proteins Now on Loan in New Yeast Libraries

16.08.2018

Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology

A new method helps researchers understand how the "moving parts" of a cell function

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An Algorithm that Rivals Experts Could Save Lives

13.08.2018

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Math & Computer Science, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A joint venture of the Weizmann Institute of Science and New York University recently won first place in a competition for innovation in...

A “walk” in composition space for a lipid world molecular assembly, shown in simplified 3 dimensions. A point on the line signifies a specific composition along the time axis, whereby the three coordinates are amounts of the three different molecule types. A composome (pink background) is a time interval when the composition stays almost unchanged, signifying compositional replication.

A Century-Old Model for Life’s Origin Gets Significant Substantiation

25.07.2018

The effects of p53 in cancer-associated fibroblasts on cancer cell migration

Switching Sides: The Betrayal of an Anti-Cancer Gene

25.07.2018

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

Reeducating cells in the tumor microenvironment reverses some of the malignancy

Response to treatment in cancer cells: The abundance of the EGFR (top row) and HER2 (bottom row) receptors is reduced when the cells are exposed to triple therapy – Tagrisso, Erbitux and Herceptin (right column) and to the two antibodies, Erbitux and Herceptin (second from right column), but not when they are exposed to Tagrisso alone (second column from left) or to no therapy at all (left column)

Combined Approach Offers Hope to Lung Cancer Patients Who Become Resistant to Drugs

25.07.2018

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Three drugs together block growth from without and within

zebrafish eye

Silver Eyes are a Triple Treat

16.07.2018

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Nanoscience, Materials Science, Biotechnology

The iris in the zebrafish has a distinctive crystal structure that both camouflages the eye and prevents unwanted light from entering

aging

A Genetic Test for Aging

10.07.2018

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Stem Cells

How do the mutations that accumulate in our blood cells affect our health in later years?

Fluorite. Credit: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

Nanocrystals Give MRI a New Shine

28.06.2018

Molecular and Cell Biology, Nanoscience, Organic Chemistry, Yeda Technology Transfer

A “crazy idea” for using fluoride nanocrystals as magnetic resonance tracers could lead to new clinical imaging methods

Microscope image of a yeast cell showing how close mitochondria (red) are to peroxisomes (blue) and the contact sites that hold them together (green)

Tethered in the Cell

25.06.2018

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

Weizmann researchers identify new ties between the parts of a cell: physical connections that are vital for health

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Ebola Antibodies at Work

The Azrieli Foundation Funds Fragile X Research at the Institute

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A New Route to Blocking Children’s Bone Cancer

Omer Markovitch

Chemistry and Biology are Not Separate Worlds

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