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Use It or Lose It
25.12.2014

Why do muscles lose their strength without exercise?

Fluorescent image of Baker's yeast cells showing that the yeast Presenilin-like protein, Ypf1 (green), is found in the same cellular area as Presenilin, around the nucleus
18.11.2014

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal an unusual cellular mechanism that may be faulty in Alzheimer’s disease

stem state infographic
01.05.2014

The path from stem cell to mature adult cell is not a one-way street

Senescent liver cells in culture
08.10.2013

Dr. Valery Krizhanovsky wants to know what happens to our cells when they age

Human cells light up with green fluorescent markers after being penetrated by a genetically engineered virus coated with the VSV envelope protein
05.06.2013

How does a helpful virus often used for gene therapy break into cells?

Yeast cell atlas: image by Michal Breker
08.04.2013

A new map of protein routes in the cell holds some surprises for researchers

Cell Reports cover: Illustration by Dr. Rita Gelin-Licht showing yeast cells mating through extensions
16.07.2012

When yeast cells want to mate, they grow extensions in the direction of  potential partners

Budding wing from irradiated fruit fly larvae, magnified about 80 times; various aspects of apoptosis in a regular fly (left column) are compared with the mutant fly lacking the drice gene (right column). Upper row: “reporter” proteins are highlighted with green fluorescent protein; middle row: the cutting up of these reporter proteins by caspases; bottom row: numerous cells die by apoptosis in the regular fruit fly (left), whereas almost no apoptosis occurs in the fly lacking the Drice caspase (right)
11.06.2012

What separates the cells that are prone to suicide from those that are long lived?

Wild type yeast cells (l) exhibit changes in the membrane pump proteins under different nutrient conditions, while yeast engineered to avoid repressing one transporter type (r) show no change
19.03.2012

Why do cells keep two pump systems for nutrient uptake?

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