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Fluorescent image of artificial cells on a chip. The differences in genetic composition between cells produced the different colors, which reveal stages in building parts of a virus

Artificial Cells Produce Parts of Viruses for Safe Studies

20.07.2020

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Viruses & Microorganisms, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The Weizmann Institute of Science group demonstrated the production of protein assembly lines on a silicon chip

Lung cancer samples: Far left untreated. Lung cancer tissue failed to respond when exposed to a microtubule inhibitor drug (left) or to a drug that enhanced the apoptosis-inducing pathway (middle). But when the two drugs were applied together to the same tissue, the cancer cells died (right)

A New Approach to Tailoring Cancer Therapy: Tapping into Signaling Activities in Cancer Cells

16.07.2020

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Matching drugs to tumors may lead to personalized treatment and new therapies

Some bacteria love the smell of sulfur in hot gases

When the Heat Is On – Turn Up the Ac(4C)

15.07.2020

Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Heat-resistance tags on bacterial RNA hold clues to human diseases

Schwartz_Reisman students and teacher

They Come for the Physics

14.07.2020

Science Teaching

The Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Center in Rehovot is teaching high school students to love physics

Abstract image of DNA and human brain in blue tones

The Evolution Within

09.07.2020

Viruses & Microorganisms, Evolution and Development, Genetics

When fast and slow evolution happen together, the results defy the rules

zebra fish swimming

What the Fish Heart Knows

07.07.2020

Systems Biology

Researchers uncover a see-through secret to heart repair

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The Free Market of Ideas

04.07.2020

A biology student and a journalist investigate how Wikipedia gets its information

Orenia fungi

Can't See the Fungi for the Trees: The Forest's Hidden Helpers

30.06.2020

Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Underground fungal networks transfer carbon between neighboring trees, even of different species

iceberg

The Magnetic History of Ice

28.06.2020

Planetary Science

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar system

Grove of trees

In the Grove

25.06.2020

Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Dr. Rafat Qubaja's work on campus trees shows even small groves can help mitigate climate change

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