December 8st, 2022

pregnancy. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The model that will warn in advance about a pregnancy at risk

A new company, established at the Enbox Center for Entrepreneurship at Bar-Ilan University, has developed a technology for predicting pregnancy complications at the very beginning, by characterizing the microbiome (bacteria) population
Tour as part of the desert conference. Photograph of the desert conference speakers

"$44 trillion, about half of the world's annual economic output is at risk because of the climate crisis"

The Secretary of the UN Desert Convention, Ibrahim Theo, said these things at the international desert conference held at the Desert Research Institute in Sde Boker. Water shortage, crops will fail, plants will stop growing, migration will expand even more
Prof. Toufik's hypothesis on the origin of life: from individual peptides without structure (turquoise, left) to proteins with structure and the ability to bind to DNA (turquoise, right), through an intermediate stage of peptides that organize into dimers within droplets (center)

The cradle of protein evolution

A day after Prof. Dan Toufik's death, his hypothesis about the origin of life was significantly strengthened