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Nir Friedman

Prof. Nir Friedman. Courtesy of the Hebrew University

A method for diagnosing a wide variety of diseases by a simple blood test instead of invasive tests

Autoimmune diseases of specific organs are manifested, among others, in the thyroid gland, the adrenal gland, and the beta cells in the pancreas. Why does the immune system attack these organs and not others? Illustration Prof. Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute

What causes autoimmune diseases?

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Growing cells in "microbars" - surfaces containing thousands of niches smaller than the thickness of a hair. At the beginning of the experiment, one or two T cells were inserted into some of the "micro-bars", while in others a larger number was inserted - up to ten cells per "bar". Illustration: Weizmann Institute

How many cells does it take to produce memory?

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Illustration: Spokesperson of the Weizmann Institute

environmental control

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Dr. Nir Friedman, Weizmann Institute

Affirmative action

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Now in noise

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