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The archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus – a hyperthermophilic unicellular organism whose name means “furious fireball.” Its preferred ambient temperature is about 100 degrees Celsius

How extreme heat-loving creatures redesign the ribosome to survive at over 80 degrees

A new direction for fighting cancer: making it incriminate itself

Prof. Yardena Samuels' lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science has succeeded in making cancer cells surrender themselves to the immune system. The new approach may offer hope to incurable patients
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About two components that help COVID-19 make its proteins and multiply
Imaging the self-assembly process: the production of proteins and ribosomal RNA from synthetic DNA strands on a chip leads to the self-assembly of a new ribosome subunit - also on the chip. Bottom left: imaging of DNA strands clustered in several dense brushes in the form of circles, right: fluorescence imaging of subunit cascades formed at the end of the assembly process. Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute

self-assembling ribosome

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cell division (mitosis). Illustration from PIXABAY.COM

Proteins are also allowed to make mistakes

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Ribosome imaging. Source: 2014, Wong et al, CC-BY 4.0 license.

The protein that anesthetizes the bacteria

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From the right: Shira Weingarten-Gabai, Shani Elias-Kirma, Prof. Eran Segal and Der Ronit Nir. Genetic Engineering

control areas

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Prof. Ada Yonat at the opening plenary of the Life Sciences Baltics conference held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania on September 12, 2012. Photo by Avi Blizovsky

The reluctance of pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics for economic reasons could set us back decades when it comes to life expectancy

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The original proto-ribosome was much simpler than today's ribosome but the direction of development can be analyzed

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

This week it's happening: the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Prof. Ada Yonat

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Prof. Ada Yonat: Survival of the fittest and natural selection played an important role in the prebiotic world

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Ribosome: The Key to Life at the Atomic Level Part II

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Prof. Ada Yonat in her laboratory, November 30, 2009. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The C. elegans worm is no longer alone

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