Weizmann Institute

non-coding RNA

neuron regeneration

RNA “Specialists” Activate Nerve Regeneration

24.01.2019

Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Researchers identify a "switch" that is only active when nerves are injured

Humans and fish share about 70% of their protein-coding genes, but only about 0.5% of their regulatory long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)

Genomic Recycling: Ancestral Genes Take On New Roles

18.09.2017

Systems Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics

How some genes lost the ability to make proteins - and gained regulatory powers

We share many of our genes with sea urchins, but none of the sequences for long non-coding RNAs that regulate those genes

Looking for Links

25.05.2015

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Non-coding DNA sequences on an evolutionary “fast track” may hold clues to human disease

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Gut Microbes May Affect the Course of ALS

macrophage and bacteria

First Impressions Go a Long Way in the Immune System

Prof. Yuval Gefen

Prof. Avigdor Scherz

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Gut Microbes May Affect the Course of ALS

First Impressions Go a Long Way in the Immune System

Small Institute, Outsized Impact

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