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Prof. Oded Ravavi. Photo by Jonathan Tzur

Prof. Oded Ravefi from Uni' Tel Aviv won 2.5 million dollars for free research

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Prof. Ravavi is a partner in the Polymath Prize which is an "experiment in innovation that is based on extreme curiosity" distributed by the Schmidt Pewter Foundation founded by Eric Schmidt, one of the founders of Google
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Three laws that dictate intergenerational epigenetic inheritance - not through changes in the DNA sequence

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Prof. Oded Ravavi's laboratory previously discovered that worms bequeath to their offspring small RNA molecules that contain information about the parents' environment, such as nutritional status, viral infection and even the brain activity of the parents, thus contributing to the survival of future generations. In their current study, Prof. Ravavi and his team tried To understand whether there are laws for the epigenetic inheritance of small RNAs over the generations or whether it is a passive and random inheritance
A family tree of worms, based on a neuron (nerve cell), and RNA molecules that transmit information between generations. Credit: Beata Edyta Mierzwa

A mechanism has been deciphered that allows the inheritance of brain activity from generation to generation - not through DNA

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Monoclonal antibodies to cancer

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a method to find out which proteins move from cell to cell in the intercellular communication

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