Math & Computer Science

(l-r) Dr. Zohar Mukamel, Zohar Shipony and Prof. Amos Tanay

Cellular Senior Moments

21.07.2014

Cancer, Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

As the body’s cell divide and age, mistakes can pile up in the genome's "tags"

(l-r) Prof. Amos Tanay and Dr. Ido Amit

Cells Are Individuals Too

04.03.2014

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Math & Computer Science

A single-cell sequencing method gets past prejudices

Writ Large – and Small

Writ Large – and Small

06.02.2014

Brain & Behavior, Math & Computer Science, Mathematics

How does the brain encode movements that occur on many scales?

eating right

Gut Response

03.12.2013

Nutrition, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Math & Computer Science

A unique experiment explores the connection between the food we eat and our gut microbiota

Chromosomes Show Off their Shapes

Chromosomes Show Off their Shapes

25.11.2013

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

A new view of our chromosomes reveals a complex picture

filmed math lesson

Math in the Movies

24.11.2013

Math & Computer Science, Science Teaching

Filmed lessons help teachers learn from one another

Dr. Yaron Lipman

The Math of Distortion

20.10.2013

Math & Computer Science

Dr. Yaron Lipman is getting computers to understand 3-D

Without the c-Kit gene, colon cancer cells grow in a disorderly, aggregated manner and are invasive (A); when c-Kit expression is restored in these cells, they revert to a more normal organization (B)

The Double Life of a Cancer Gene

15.09.2013

Space & Physics, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A cancer-causing gene can prevent the deadly spread of a tumor at a later point in malignancy

(l-r) Profs. Dmitry Novikov and Sergei Yakovenko, and Dr. Gal Binyamini. Illustration: Gil Gibli

The 16th Problem

08.09.2013

Institute mathematicians stretch a solution to an outstanding problem to the “limit”

“Deregulation scores” of hundreds of brain tumor patients: Each row corresponds to a pathway (that is, a biochemical process), and each column to a sample taken from a patient. Every colored spot stands for a number – the value of the “deregulation score” of the corresponding pathway, as determined for a particular patient. Dark blue stands for the activity of the pathway in normal brain tissue, whereas dark red indicates a high level of deviation from normal behavior. The clearly distinct group of normal b

The Path to Personalized Prognosis

13.05.2013

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A new approach to personalized cancer therapy profiles a tumor by its biological pathways

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