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Dr. Zvi Chioka. Source: Courtesy of the Hebrew University.

Researchers have developed antibiotics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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A general view of nerve fibers stretching from cells in the forebrain of a mouse demonstrates the advantages of the hydrogel method that allows researchers to follow the complex neural wiring. Source: Dysroth Laboratory, Stanford University.

A look into the transparent mind

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Schematic representation of the passage of light through the detector complex of a photoreceptor and the progress of the light to the effector (courtesy: © TU Graz/IBC).

A biological system with a light switch

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Between matching and cutting

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How do we know how to locate our nose in space or follow the position of the arm during its movement without the sense of sight?. Photo: Barbara Piuma / Wikimedia.

Knowing where the nose is: the mechanisms of action of the sixth sense

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A flood of tears

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Simulation of astronauts on Mars, according to SpaceX's vision to colonize the planet. Source: SpaceX.

Twenty big questions about the future of humanity

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The plant Arabidopsis, after genetic engineering (right) during which 11 genes involved in the production of cholesterol were inserted into it, produces cholesterol in a quantity 15 times greater than a normal white Arabidopsis (left). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

green cholesterol

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From the study: Fluorescent radiation emission map of cells treated with the organometallic compound. Source: Dr. Carlos Sanchez-Cano et al. Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence Nanoprobe Reveals Target Sites for Organo-Osmium Complex in Human Ovarian Cancer Cells, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2017.

An organic-metallic compound for the elimination of cancer cells

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Diagram of 3-GSK enzyme. How do complex molecules like proteins work together? Source: Boghog, Wikimedia.

When proteins manage to surprise

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Photo from a malaria vaccination project in the Solomon Islands. Source: Jeremy Miller, AusAID, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Flickr.

I know you from where?

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Illustration. Source: pixabay.com.

Biomimetic chemistry - a window into the molecular world

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sea ​​urchins Source: Nick Hobgood / Wikimedia.

Thorns and hedgehogs (in seawater)

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Illustration of acetylcholinesterase. Source: pdb101.

between calculation and delay

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The AS-beta protein (green), which is expressed on the surface of the mitochondria, the organelles responsible for the production of energy in the cell, enables the separation between the sperm cells in the mature ferment fly. Cell nuclei are marked in blue

Destruction builds life

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Who described evolution more correctly - Darwin or Lamarck?

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biochemistry. Illustration: shutterstock

The discoverers of the connections between chemistry and biology won the 2016 Wolf Prize for Chemistry

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Illustrating the way Nobel laureate Satoshi Umura arrived at the effective substances against parasitic diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize website

Bacteria and plants against parasites

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Intestinal bacteria. Illustration Mjak/Shutterstock

Intestinal bacteria are involved in diseases such as diabetes and Crohn's disease

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Bromine, one of the 92 common chemical elements in nature, is the 28th element in number among the essential substances for the development of life of every organism on earth. Illustration: shutterstock

It was found that the element bromine is essential for life

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A duck in the rainforests of Australia. Photo: shutterstock

Mirror molecules / Sarah Everts

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Right: structure of a single ring (A) and structure of a double ring (B), known as hexadecameric catenane. Left: The structure of the hexadecameric catenane can be visualized as two interlocking rings.

An enzyme with an unusual and surprising structure

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John Shanklin and Ed Whittle, Brookhaven

Revealing the mechanism of activity of an important enzyme

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AT Professor Charlie Johnson who led the research

Researchers have succeeded in attaching odor receptors to nanotubes

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Prof. Fernando Petulsky, Tel Aviv University. Photo: Michal Rosh-Ben Ami, Tel Aviv University

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a system for self-detection of rape

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