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Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development

Israeli and Czech scientists recreated the coronavirus’s evolutionary journey in a test tube – revealing the conditions that can produce...

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Putting a Super Cork on the Coronavirus

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Therapeutic approach developed by Weizmann Institute scientists could spell new hope in the battle against COVID-19

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Ada Yonath, photographed for the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, 2008. Credit: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis

Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance, Has Passed Away

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