The Immune System’s Fountain of Youth
Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics 31.12.2018 Drug treatment eliminates senescent cells from tissues of old mice. The blue staining shows senescent cells in lung and liver tissue. The amount of the...
It’s a Stretch: Giving Direction to Blood Vessels
Scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science reveal the mechanical forces that influence the spatial organization of blood vessels 13.12.2018 An example of well-oriented blood vessels generated in the...
The Importins of Anxiety
The discovery of a new neural mechanism underlying anxiety points to possible treatments 11.12.2018 In genetically engineered mice lacking the protein called importin alpha-5 (right), a molecule called MeCP2 (red), known to affect anxiety behaviors, stayed on the...
Profiling a Killer in Warm Blood
Israeli scientists and physicians develop a new technology for profiling the unique genetic makeup of myeloma tumor cells that will allow better diagnosis and treatment 06.12.2018 Tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution and therapy resistance revealed using single cell...
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