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Targeting a Chronic Pain Gateway Could Bring Relief

14.08.2020
Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
A new approach to chronic pain treatment targets a molecule that moves pain messages into nerve cell nuclei
INs-seq illustration

Internal Differences: A New Method for Seeing into Cells

10.08.2020
The new technology may help answer outstanding questions about the immune system, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more
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  
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
Proteins with primitive arginine-based proteins (right) might have been capable of self-assembly and phase separation to create cell-like droplets

Which Came First?

22.06.2020
Biochemistry, Evolution and Development
An experiment in reconstructing primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle
Abstract image of two mice

What Does the “Love Hormone” Do? It’s Complicated

15.06.2020
Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior
A study of mice in a semi-natural setting shows how the hormone oxytocin can amplify aggression as well as friendliness
Science on Tap 2020 - POSTPONED

Science on Tap 2020 - POSTPONED

08.06.2020
A notice will be sent out once the new date has been determined  
Wilson's Arch

Solving the Riddle: When was Wilson's Arch, under Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Built?

04.06.2020
Scientific Archaeology
Analyzing a handful of charred seeds reveals the ancient builder of an iconic structure in the Western Wall Tunnels 
bacteria in cancer cells

Cells inside Cells: The Bacteria That Live in Cancer Cells

28.05.2020
Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
The bacterial lodgers in cancer cells may hinder or help treatment

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