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Tiny droplets formed by peptides and RNA, viewed under a microscope
Life’s Mysteries Converge in a Droplet
06.12.2022
Organic Chemistry, Evolution and Development

Recreating conditions that may have existed before the dawn of life, researchers watched droplets give rise to possible precursors of today’s...

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Cells and the City
03.10.2021
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development

Tracing the evolution of protein maintenance in cellular "boroughs...

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How "Great" Was the Great Oxygenation Event?
25.02.2021
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development

A look at enzyme evolution suggests life figured out how to use oxygen long before the main event 

Proteins with primitive arginine-based proteins (right) might have been capable of self-assembly and phase separation to create cell-like droplets
Which Came First?
22.06.2020
Biochemistry, Evolution and Development

An experiment in reconstructing primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle

Prof. Dan Tawfik
Prof. Dan Tawfik
16.06.2020

Prof. Dan Tawfik is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation

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In Search of the First Enzymes
01.04.2019
Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Evolution and Development, Plants and Agriculture

Proto-enzymes designed in the lab bound strongly to RNA and DNA, suggesting a surprising origin for these proteins

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The Protein Planner
01.11.2018
Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A computational method for designing dramatically more efficient versions of enzymes may lead to new avenues of drug design and new treatments...

Evolution of a protein
Piecing Together a Propeller (Protein)
26.09.2016
Biochemistry, Evolution and Development

 

A protein "time machine" reveals how proteins may have evolved 

protein repair shop
Stable by Design
01.08.2016
Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A “one-stop,” computer-design “shop” for stabilizing problematic proteins

Prof. Dan Tawfik
Prof. Dan Tawfik
07.08.2013

Prof. Dan Tawfik is the recipient of the Teva Award for Excellence in Memory of Eli Hurvitz

 

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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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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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