Diseases

Artificial intelligence decodes the genome. The illustration was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image.

A new method follows the "learning curve" of artificial intelligence to decipher complex genomic data

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Researchers from the Hebrew University have developed Annotatability—an innovative framework that enables the detection of errors in genomic data, the improvement of biological analyses, and the identification of cellular pathways related to development and diseases
Illustrative epigenetics: depositphotos.com

The Technion will award the Harvey Prize to three groundbreaking researchers in the field of cancer epigenetics

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Prof. Peter Jones, Prof. Steven Bailin and Prof. Andrew Feinberg will receive the Harvey Award in the field of science and technology for their contribution to the diagnosis of diseases and the development of treatments based on the understanding of epigenetic mechanisms
Stages in ringworm disease in women. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Pioneering research reveals: baldness due to illness or medical treatment has health, mental and social consequences

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The doctoral thesis of Dr. Liat Hooper from the Department of Social Work and the Faculty of Health Sciences revealed for the first time the existence of gender differences in the health and mental consequences of baldness, as a result of radiation against ringworm
Disease at first glance: when a cell of the immune system (macrophage, in blue) meets a bacterium (in red), what happens in the first 48-24 hours is crucial

An algorithm that may predict the chance of contracting tuberculosis

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The scientists took advantage of the fact that chirality affects an electron property called "spin", which is characterized by two states - "spin up" and "spin down" - similar to the spinning of a spinning top clockwise or counterclockwise. Illustration: Prof. Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute

Molecular spin in the laboratory

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Breast cancer cells in culture as seen under an optical microscope. You can see the bands connecting the cells. Photo: Prof. Geiger, Weizmann Institute

All together and each separately

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Cells. Illustration: shutterstock

The genetic internet

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Calcium carbonate walls that protect a bacterial colony. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

Break down walls - and heal

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Neurons communicate with each other. Illustration: shutterstock

The protein will react at the appropriate time and place

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Nose. Illustration: Spokesperson of the Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists inserted a miniature "nose" into a living cell

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Illustration: pixabay.

Is surgery the most effective treatment for diabetes?

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Children who grew up with a cat for at least their first year of life were less likely to develop asthma. Photography: Jenny Lee Silver.

Cats against asthma

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

The protein that anesthetizes the bacteria

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The lands in the arctic circle have been frozen for thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of years. Photo: NASA.

When the ground disappears under your feet

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Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Source: Ute Frevert / Margaret Shear / Wikimedia Commons.

The trick of the malaria parasite

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The Research Regulation Council: plans to ban experiments on antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Illustration: James Gathany / CDC.

The Israeli mosquito that brought the fever to America

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Air pollution originating from power plants, industry, transportation and more causes up to 2,253 deaths per year. Illustration: pixabay.

Air pollution: the silent killer

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Enlarged photograph of vibrous cholera. Affecting thousands of people in Yemen these days. Source: CDC/Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr / Wikimedia.

The predatory bacteria that enjoys the heat

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The Aedes aegypt mosquito, which is among the transmitters of the Zika virus. Source: James Gathany / PHIL, CDC.

The diseases spread by climate change

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Bacteriophage simulation. Source: naturalismus.

Researchers have developed a technology that enables the "reprogramming" of bacteria

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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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Microglia (in light green) in an adult mouse brain. Photographed using a fluorescence microscope

How disruptions in the development of the immune system can damage the fetal and neonatal brain in mice used as a model for the study of brain diseases Developments

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An elderly person who has difficulty walking - one of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Illustration: shutterstock

How to break down clumps of proteins that are not folded correctly, in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients?

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Myocardial. Illustration: shutterstock

the heart of the matter

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schizophrenia. Illustration: shutterstock

Filtering the genetic information of schizophrenia

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Schematic diagram of HIV. From Wikipedia

The medicine worth its weight in gold

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Robert Koch

The enemy within: bacteria revisited

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Schematic diagram of HIV. From Wikipedia

Determining protein structure will help cure AIDS

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Symptoms of malaria

Research opens a promising new direction in the treatment of malaria

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

If I don't have me, I have bacteria

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

Cranberry juice prevents a host of health problems caused by E-Coli

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

Gene therapy for SCID. get out of the bubble

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

A dog is a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog

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