October 3, 2022

Figure 3. Pabo's discoveries provided important information regarding the population of the world at the time Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Neanderthals lived in western Eurasia while Denisovans lived in eastern Eurasia. Breeding between the different species occurred when the Homo sapiens spread across the continent, leaving behind treasured remains in DNA. Illustration from the explanation for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize for Medicine to the Swede Svante Pavo, the discoverer of the Denisovan man and the decipherer of the genome of extinct human species

Santa Febo is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist, one of the founding fathers of the field of paleogenetics, leader of the international project to map the Neanderthal human genome, and co-discoverer of Denisovan man
Tour of senior officials of the ministry and environmental organizations in the Dead Sea. Photo: Ministry of Environmental Protection

Stabilization of the Dead Sea: the dryer will pay

Towards a recommendation to the government on a policy to stabilize the level of the Dead Sea: The Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, led a multi-participant tour of the Dead Sea region to examine the public comments received on the draft Atid Yam policy document
The search for fungi in cancer. Illustration: Studio Ella Maro

The fungi that hide inside cancerous tumors

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists and their research partners have mapped the presence of fungi in 35 different types of cancer ■ The fungi that live inside the cancerous tumors may facilitate the detection, diagnosis and perhaps even the treatment of cancer
Makers - Ron Halevi demonstrates one design of the new prosthesis. Photo: Stratsys

XNUMXD printing and a team of Stratsys volunteers were recruited to upgrade a prosthesis for a disabled IDF Paralympic athlete

"Like the super heroes' aids, we wanted to give the prosthesis unique abilities, such as a hidden wallet, or a beer opener and even a place for the prosthetic's operating tools... The little practical things can be really cool,
Preparation for MRI examination. Image: depositphotos.com

New tests with the help of the MRI scanner

As the years go by, new types of sequences and protocols are developed and are joined by improvements in software and hardware - for example, you can see the great development in recent years in the field of cardiovascular imaging, bowel imaging and more