Biomedicine

Ferritin is not in the classical secretion pathway of the cell. The location of ferritin distribution (green) and its distribution in bone marrow-derived macrophage cells is not affected by a substance that damages the classical secretory pathway, the Golgi organ (red). Courtesy of the Technion.

A new study changes the way of thinking about the transport of iron in the body

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A health worker in Ethiopia puts a blood sample on a rapid malaria test kit, 2012. Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia.

Ideas that will change the world: cheap diagnostic tools on pieces of paper

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Reciprocal reactions between drugs and the patients' genes may have a negative effect on the effect of the drugs and even endanger the patients' lives. Genetic testing may prevent this and help find an alternative drug. Illustration: National Human Genome Research Institute.

adjust the medicine that suits you best

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The graphene layer (gray) leads the nanomedicine (white, red and blue) to the outer wall of the cell (yellow and red). Source: Courtesy of IBM.

Researchers at IBM have discovered a new way to stimulate an immune response in the body using nanomaterials

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Prof. Amir Landsberg. Source: Technion spokesmen.

New avenues in medicine

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Schematic diagram of the system and the DNA molecules conjugated to a synthetic molecule that pulls them through the hole. Right: an example of the optical signal (in two colors) indicating the level of methylation. Courtesy of the Technion.

Unimolecular cancer diagnosis

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Human nerve cells are injected into a primary pig embryo. Source: Jun Wu et al.

grow human organs in the bodies of animals

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Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito - the carrier and spreader of the West Nile virus. Source: CDC/Jim Gathany 2003 / Wikimedia.

IBM, together with the Israeli Melnox and NVIDIA, decoded the genome of the Nile fever mosquito

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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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Winners of the Rapaport Prize for Science: In the photo from right to left: the winner Prof. Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Verd Drenger, Ruth Rapaport, Prof. Michael Sela and the winner Dr. Gad Asher, Weizmann Institute. Photo: Tomer Poltin

The winners of the Rapaport Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research have been announced

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Cross-sectional image from a confocal microscope: breast cancer cells with high metastatic potential push into a polyacrylamide gel with a stiffness of 2.4 kPa, where this section is at a depth of 10.6 microns below the surface of the gel. In the picture you can see the cell nuclei (red), the actin element in the intracellular skeleton (green) and the connections of the cells to the surface at connection centers (blue).

A fatal warning: researchers have developed a method for estimating the metastatic potential of cancerous tumors

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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Source: NIAID.

The poisoned arrow of the golden bacterium

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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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Cells can take up polymeric nanoparticles containing quantum dots coated with phospholipid polymer and cell-penetrating peptides. [Courtesy of Kazuhiko Ishihara, Weixin Chen, Yihua Liu, Yuriko Tsukamoto and Yuuki Inoue]

The images of the internal walls of cells

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Illustration depicting the behavior of a drop of water in oil within an electric field. [Courtesy: COPYRIGHT (C) 2015 TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]

An innovative method of introducing genes into cells

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