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Marine Biomass: The Life that Stays Small, Lives Fast, Dies Young

23.01.2020
Evolution and Development, Environment, Environment
A new census asks why the oceans have so little biomass compared to land, and shows how small marine producers pull their weight
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New Algorithm Predicts Gestational Diabetes

13.01.2020
Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Math & Computer Science, Technology & Applications, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
Igor Ulitsky

Chasing a Link

09.01.2020
Life Sciences, Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics
A non-coding gene’s neighbors reveal what it does for a “living.” The findings may pave the way to developing therapies for epilepsy and autism 
Arenacept

Decoy Molecule Neutralizes a Range of Viruses

07.01.2020
Structural Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
The molecule points the way toward treating viruses that cross from animals to humans
Eran Hornstein

Why is this Nerve Cell Different? Finding the Genetic Roots of ALS

02.01.2020
Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics
Q & A with Prof. Eran Hornstein on discovering why mutations in a gene for a tiny non-coding RNA could herald the onset of neurodegenerative...
heat scarring

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
no sugar added

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 
neurons

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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