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One Plant, Three Kingdoms, Five Trips

One Plant, Three Kingdoms, Five Trips

24.06.2026

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Plants and Agriculture, Biotechnology

Weizmann Institute scientists decipher how a well-known psychedelic substance is created, then engineer a plant to produce several psychedelics at...

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GORKY Protein Turns Bitter Tomatoes Sweet

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Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes

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Intestinal organoids grown in the lab from stem cells derived from patients. Each sphere represents one organoid. Photo: Petro Busko, a PhD student in Biton’s lab

When the Gut Can’t Forget: A New Mechanism Promoting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

A portion of the mouse hypothalamus reveals that the protein made by the Otp gene (green) is expressed in all the neurons (red) that drive hunger – and the combined color is therefore yellow. It was known that in the developing brain, Otp is needed for the generation of these neurons. The study found that during adulthood, Otp is crucial for causing these neurons to express AgRP, a major hunger-promoting substance

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When the Gut Can’t Forget: A New Mechanism Promoting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Viagra May Reduce Cancer Metastasis, Study Shows

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The Limits of Computing

Computers can solve complex problems but they are far from omnipotent. Prof. Ran Raz of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is trying to portray the limits...