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An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure

06.11.2019

Brain & Behavior

A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs

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For the First Time: A Method for Measuring Animal Personality

04.11.2019

Brain & Behavior, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Genetics

A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behavior and personality

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Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

30.10.2019

Robotics and Machine Learning, Brain & Behavior, Evolution and Development

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Ebola Antibodies at Work

07.10.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the disease

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A New Route to Blocking Children’s Bone Cancer

02.10.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A study in mice showed that reducing a particular hormone signal keeps the cancer from growing and spreading

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Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes

12.09.2019

Cancer, Personalized Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumors prevents effective immune responses

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Firework Memories

15.08.2019

Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a neuronal mechanism central to human free recall

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Next-Gen Israeli Satellite to Seek out Cosmic Explosions and Black Holes

12.08.2019

Space & Physics, Astrophysics

Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology are heading this international project

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Gut Microbes May Affect the Course of ALS

22.07.2019

Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Researchers isolated a molecule that may be under-produced in the guts of patients

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First Impressions Go a Long Way in the Immune System

22.07.2019

Viruses & Microorganisms, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

An algorithm that predicts the immune response to a pathogen could lead to early diagnosis for such diseases as tuberculosis

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