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Social Hierarchy: Even for Mice, It’s Complicated
Social Hierarchy: Even for Mice, It’s Complicated
03.04.2024
Brain & Behavior

Studying wild mice in near-natural conditions reveals different strategies used by females and males in forming social hierarchies

Down to the Synapse: Connecting Brain Circuits to Behavior
Down to the Synapse: Connecting Brain Circuits to Behavior
15.11.2022
Brain & Behavior

By flipping a single synaptic connection in a neural circuit, the researchers caused male worms to behave like females in response to a...

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The Social Sense
28.12.2021
Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology

Oxytocin in a developing fish brain determines later social behavior  

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Getting to the Genetic Basis of Social Behavior and Anxiety
21.02.2017
Brain & Behavior, Genetics

Fish with two genes for a crucial protein are helping researchers understand its function in neurodevelopmental disorders

Midge swarm and star cluster
Insect Swarms May Resemble Star Clusters
11.08.2016
Space & Physics, Theoretical Physics, Environment, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A new theory developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Stanford University uses a gravitational model to explain the collective...

Stress-coping molecule Urocortin-3 (green) and its receptor, CRFR2 (red),
Stress-Coping Mechanism Helps Mice Make New Friends
19.07.2016
Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists show how a molecule in the mouse’s brain regulates social behavior

Staff Scientist: Dr. Ehud Fonio
Staff Scientist: Dr. Ehud Fonio
14.07.2016
Theoretical Physics, Brain & Behavior

What can a physicist learn from ants? 

Longhorn crazy ants cooperating to transfer an item much too heavy for one to move alone.
Ants in the Lead
30.07.2015
Space & Physics, Chemistry

A physics-based model can explain how ants cooperate in steering food to their nest

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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)

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions
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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
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