All That Glitters on the Nanoscale

All That Glitters on the Nanoscale

A new method for fabricating nanostructured metals may lead to smaller electronic devices 30.10.2017 Nanoallotropes of gold viewed with transmission electron microscopy (top) and electron tomography (bottom) Nature supplies us with dramatic lessons on the importance...
How Enzymes Behave “At Home” in the Cell

How Enzymes Behave “At Home” in the Cell

A first-ever study of enzyme efficiency inside living cells reveals a surprising constraint on their activities 24.10.2017 Enzyme activity in a cell: Enzymes are red, the final product, which is fully converted within several minutes, is blue (see movie below) Some...
Crashing Neutron Stars Observed for the First Time

Crashing Neutron Stars Observed for the First Time

Weizmann Institute scientists help confirm and analyze the star merger 16.10.2017 This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser An international...
“Big Eater” Cells’ New Role – in Preventing Obesity

“Big Eater” Cells’ New Role – in Preventing Obesity

New research shows these immune cells are also crucial to maintaining harmony, including that of heat-producing fat cells 28.09.2017 Characterization of macrophages (green) and axons (red) in brown adipose tissue (BAT) using two-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging...
Altitude Training for Cancer-Fighting Cells

Altitude Training for Cancer-Fighting Cells

Oxygen starvation could toughen up immune T cells for cancer immunotherapy 18.09.2017 Cancerous tumor tissue under a microscope: T cells grown under low oxygen conditions (green) and regular T cells (purple) show similar distribution patterns vis-à-vis blood vessels...