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Sticking a Pin in Cancer
12.07.2024
Structural Biology, Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A new cellular mechanism for identifying unraveled proteins may serve as a target for cancer therapies

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Proteins without Parents
14.02.2024
Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development

Using three AI protein prediction tools, a Chinese-Israeli study uncovers new wrinkles in the folding story of “orphan” proteins

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Moonshot Provides Blueprint for Future Pandemic Drugs
10.11.2023
Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

An open-access format for drug discovery is helping design medications against potential viral threats

Mucin (magenta) in the inner lining of a mouse colon, viewed under a microscope
Slippery Chaperone: Intestinal Mucus Takes Charge of Copper
01.12.2022
Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Nutrition

Proteins in our “smart slime” take in potentially toxic ions and deliver them safely to cells, Weizmann Institute researchers have shown...

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Origin of Life – In an RNA Pocket
14.09.2022
Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology, Evolution and Development

How did amino acids start bonding to form proteins? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers bring their findings to life in their...

Dr. Nir London
Global Initiative to Rapidly Develop a Safe, Globally Accessible and Affordable COVID-19 Antiviral Pill
29.09.2021
Structural Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

COVID Moonshot – the world's largest open-science drug discovery effort – aims to identify pre-clinical candidate molecules, with first clinical...

Illustration: Yuval Robichek
Calling through the DNA Wire
05.08.2021
Structural Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Genetics

Proteins communicating through the DNA molecule constitute a newly discovered genetic "switch"

Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding
The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain
15.04.2021
Structural Biology, Brain & Behavior, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A 3D structure reveals how a unique molecular switch in our brain causes us to feel full – and may help develop improved anti-obesity drugs...

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Burning Cancer’s Bridges

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Crystalizing Our Comprehension of Malaria

A tumor sample from a human patient with the most common type of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma). Senescent cells are highlighted by their expression of the p16 (red) and the PD-L1 (green) proteins. Cell nuclei are in blue

Unclogging the Immune System

MRI brain scans of mice with Gaucher disease Type III. The scan of a mouse that received the new treatment (left) shows a significant reduction in tissue inflammation (blue) compared to an untreated mouse (right)

Improving the Recipe for Gene Therapy

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27.08.2024
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions
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26.08.2024
A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking
An image of tissue from the human small intestine obtained with the help of fluorescent dyes that made it possible to mark numerous proteins in parallel, thereby mapping out the various proteins produced in each part of the intestinal villi
07.08.2024
Navigating the Digestive Tract
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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...

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