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Genetics
- Science site The Conversation
- December 18, 2023
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In theory, a male skin cell can be turned into an egg and a female skin cell into a sperm cell. There is also the possibility of a child genetically connected to several parents, or only to one parent
- Weizmann Institute
- December 16, 2023
Weizmann Institute scientists have shown that dry air crossing the equator intensifies the monsoon rains over India. These surprising findings may improve flood warning capabilities and be good news for hundreds of millions
- Weizmann Institute
- December 15, 2023
35% of the corona patients who died in the epidemic were diabetics. In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science scientists reveal that high blood sugar levels disrupt the immune system's ability to fight lung infections and present a therapeutic approach that may save lives
- Weizmann Institute
- December 8, 2023
The development of the disease in celiac patients is probably related to sensitivity to the protein common in industrialized dairy products. The findings pave the way for early detection of the disease and its prevention
- Weizmann Institute
- December 6, 2023
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists reveal in unprecedented detail how trauma in newborn mice shapes their brains and impairs their social functions in adulthood * A corresponding behavioral expression in humans may take the form of a high level of introversion, social anxiety and avoidant personality - behaviors known to characterize post-trauma"
- Weizmann Institute
- November 24, 2023
Trees or solar panels - which strategy wins in dealing with the climate crisis?
- Weizmann Institute
- November 12, 2023
A tweet by Prof. Nir London from the Weizmann Institute of Science grew into an international partnership to find a cure for Corona based on the principles of open science and crowd wisdom. Now the scientists involved are laying the groundwork to deal with the next epidemic
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- November 7, 2023
How can cells in the retina that have been damaged by lack of blood supply be restored? Mitochondrial transplantation contributes to the survival of damaged neurons in the retina of mice
- Dr. Moshe Nahamani
- October 2, 2023
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Kariko and Weissman immediately realized that their discovery was of enormous significance for the possible use of messenger RNA in medicine. These important findings were published in 2005, 15 years before the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
- Weizmann Institute
- September 24, 2023
The cell's garbage disposal system changes in cancer and allows it to escape the immune system
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- September 23, 2023
Researchers have discovered that two epigenetic events (removing and adding methyl from DNA) lead to the differentiation of stem cells into muscle cells and thus to the regeneration and healing of muscles after their injury
- Weizmann Institute
- September 12, 2023
The molecule that carries with it a message of regeneration
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- September 4, 2023
An examination of known growth laws that were discovered recently, led to the discovery of new growth laws
- Avi Blizovsky
- August 27, 2023
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Scientists have successfully sequenced the entire human Y chromosome, revealing critical genomic features. This groundbreaking research offers deep insights into human biology and potential medical advances. The new sequence reveals genomic factors in fertility, including sperm production.
- Weizmann Institute
- August 17, 2023
The new system was discovered in bacteria - but is also used in corals, bees and others
- Weizmann Institute
- August 12, 2023
New discoveries about how the result of infection with a virus from the herpes family is determined and where dormant viruses may hide in the body
- The Technion
- August 11, 2023
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The new technology - DBlink - is based on the SMLM method and an artificial intelligence algorithm (neural networks) and makes it possible to reproduce fast dynamics of biological objects in super-resolution in living cells
- Weizmann Institute
- August 5, 2023
Why do we tend to gain weight as we get older?
- Science site The Conversation
- August 4, 2023
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New research suggests that there may be two other significant factors that natural systems weigh: the information-theoretic nature of the genetic code and the principle of maximum entropy
- Weizmann Institute
- August 3, 2023
From depression and anxiety to diabetes - health conditions resulting from chronic stress affect women and men differently. New study in mice maps at the single-cell level molecular differences in the stress response in the brains of females and males, and may pave the way for personalized treatments
- The Hebrew University
- July 23, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Yossi Buganim from the School of Medicine of the Hebrew University succeeded in reprogramming human skin cells into functional placental cells so that there is no need to extract stem cells from embryos
- Weizmann Institute
- July 17, 2023
- Weizmann Institute
- June 18, 2023
Forecasting dust storms is a complicated matter. A new study was able to predict storms in our region with a high level of accuracy - and thereby outline how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to understand processes in the atmosphere
- Weizmann Institute
- June 13, 2023
The origin of the mysterious macrophages, known in scientific language as Tingible Body Macrophages (TBM), is in progenitor cells of the blood system that emerge from the bone marrow and settle in the lymph nodes, where they quickly and efficiently digest the remains of antibody-producing cells of the immune system
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- May 31, 2023
The long and winding road to doubling the amount of biological material available for research