Intestines

Illustration by Yael Leibovitch and Simone Dell’Ariccia

We Know What You Ate: Detailed Protein Maps Assess Intestinal Health

20.01.2025

Personalized Medicine, Nutrition, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A new Weizmann Institute study identified all of the proteins in a stool sample – those from the microbiome, the human body and food – revealing...

mRNA molecules for making insulin are found closer to the cell center

While Waiting for Food: The Surprising Fetal Gut Cells That Make Insulin

09.12.2021

Nutrition, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

The discovery opens up new avenues for developing future diabetes therapies

(l-r) Dr. Rita Manco and Prof. Shalev Itzkovitz who developed the "ClumpSeq" approach

03.11.2021

Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

New approach developed for studying rare cells that may play an important role in not so rare diseases

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