Ori Avinoam

Mouse myoblasts after a 24-hour exposure to a molecule blocking the ERK enzyme. The exposure caused the cells to undergo massive fusion, forming muscle fibers (red) with multiple nuclei (blue) // Dr. Tamar Eigler (Prof. Tzahor's research group)

The Meat, the Muscle, and the Motion of Cell Fusion

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Nutrition, Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Technology & Applications, Yeda Technology Transfer, Biotechnology

Revelations about muscle stem cell fusion find their way into the food tech industry

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The Body’s Main (Cellular) Squeeze

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Molecular and Cell Biology

The secrets of “professional secretor” cells: how they stay in shape

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Microvilli on a T cell surface, viewed with a scanning electron microscope

Cell Brakes: Some Assembly Required

A Wolf-Rayet star and the nebula surrounding it captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Gal-Yam and colleagues are the first to discover a rare-type supernova originating from this star // NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

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Prof. Elad Schneidman

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