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fruit fly larval salivary gland

How Cells Spit It Out

01.01.2016

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Structural Biology

How do the cells that secrete saliva or tears handle the load?

cytoskeleton structure

Just a Twist to the Right

11.05.2015

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development

The growth of cellular “skeletons” reveals a clear directional pattern

Wild type megakaryocyte

21.07.2014

Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics

Tiny bits of RNA are found to play a crucial role in blood cell maturation

Careful actin regulation keeps the cell in shape

Shooting the Messenger

01.05.2000

Molecular and Cell Biology

How an essential cellular protein regulates its own levels

Shooting The Messenger

Shooting The Messenger

13.02.2000

Biochemistry, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

The age-old appeal to avoid 'shooting the messenger' is apparently left unheeded by the body's protein regulation system....

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Photo credit: NASA

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Prof. Zvi Artstein, Vice President for Technology Transfer

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Israeli Researchers to Participate in European Commission Flagship

The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship projects.