Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Gut Bacteria, Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance

17.09.2014

Nutrition, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Math & Computer Science

A new study reveals that certain gut bacteria may induce metabolic changes following exposure to artificial sweeteners

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

(l-r) Amir Bar, Dr. Amos Tanay, Netta Mendelson-Cohen, Prof. Varda Rotter, Dr. Zohar Mukamel, Naomi Goldfinger, Gilad Landan and Dr. Alina Molchadsky

How Good Cells Turn Bad

10.02.2013

Genetics

Surprising changes in certain genomic markers may help explain how cells can turn cancerous as they age and divide

Mover event detected in the red cell: Motion (left) flows into the cell, (middle) stays briefly in the cell, and (right) leaves the cell, changing its appearance. Warmer colors indicate faster motion

Seeing Like a Baby

18.11.2012

Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision

A computer program reveals how babies begin to make sense of the world

Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Dr. Rivka Adar, Adam Spiro and Noa Chapal-Ilani

Finding the Source of Cancer Recurrence

17.07.2012

Biochemistry, Cancer, Math & Computer Science

Do chemotherapy drugs miss a hidden reservoir of cancer cells?

Leukemia cells. Image: Wikimedia commons, NIH

Why Chemotherapy Fails

29.05.2012

Biochemistry, Cancer, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Research led by Weizmann Institute scientists shows why leukemia often returns

Prof. Irit Dinur

18.03.2012

Prof. Irit Dinur was awarded the Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union

$Associations between bacterial species in the gut microbiota of “humanized” mice. A spring graph in which nodes correspond to significant relationships between “species”-level, and edges correspond to the top 300 nonlinear relationships. Node size is proportional to the number of these relationships between species relationships, black edges represent relationships explained by diet, and node glow color is proportional to the fraction of adjacent edges that are black (100% is red, 0% is blue)$