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Self-Monitoring Sense of Smell May Help Detect Coronavirus
02.04.2020
Brain & Behavior, Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists have developed an online platform to help detect early signs of COVID-19

How similar are these two faces?
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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human amygdala and cortex
All Too Human
22.01.2019
Brain & Behavior

The price we pay for our advanced brains may be a greater tendency to disorders

pituitary
Where the Blood-Brain Barrier Breaks Down
07.01.2019
Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology

The cells that keep blood vessels in the pituitary permeable to hormones may hold the key to future drug delivery

Bat Brains Forgo Rhythm when Encoding Space
Bat Brains Forgo Rhythm when Encoding Space
14.10.2018
Brain & Behavior

The finding reveals a new mechanism for orchestrating neuronal activity

timestamp for the brain
Time and Place
09.05.2016
Brain & Behavior

Patterns of nerve cell activity act as a "timestamp" in our brain

Red and green dots reveal a region in the brain that that is very dense with synapses. A special fluorescent protein allows Dr. Ofer Yizhar and his group to record the activity of the synapses
Temporary Disconnects Shed Light on Long-Term Brain Dysfunction
16.03.2016
Brain & Behavior

Targeting axons uncovers the brain's distance communications 

Avital Hahamy and Prof. Rafi Malach
Rewiring
02.02.2015
Brain & Behavior

How do our bodies synchronize our two halves – hands and brain?

(l-r) Drs. Michael Yartsev and Nachum Ulanovsky
Taking Flight
07.01.2014

Recent graduate Dr. Michael Yartsev is winning awards for his research at the Weizmann...

The day after effect of brain activation: The brain image at the back presents spontaneous (resting state) patterns before an fMRI-based neurofeedback training session. The front brain image presents spontaneous (resting state) patterns a day after the training session, illustrating the long-term trace of the training
Past Brain Activation Revealed in Scans
25.06.2013
Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists discover that spontaneously emerging brain activity patterns preserve traces of previous cognitive activity
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An electron microscope view of phages duplicated inside bacterial cells that possess the immune system discovered in the new study. This immune system attaches a ubiquitin-like protein (marked by black dots and white arrows) to the tails of these phages, preventing them from infecting other bacterial cells

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Excellence, Resilience and Diligence: Meet the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Honorary PhD Recipients
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One Protein, Two Programs

A cell’s decision to commit suicide involves an exchange of information between two suicide mechanisms

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Prof. Yoram Groner is a pioneer in Down syndrome research

The Limits of Computing

Computers can solve complex problems but they are far from omnipotent. Prof. Ran Raz of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is trying to portray the limits...