Nov 23, 2020 | Non classé
A link in a worm nervous system that is broken in maturing females, but not in males, may shed light on the sex-linked nature of certain mental conditions Depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders tend to strike...
Oct 12, 2020 | Non classé
Much as our earliest memories go into making our grown-up personalities, the cells in our bodies have “memories” that shape their identities. Cellular memories remind our skin cells to stay skin and bone cells to stay bone – even as these cells divide again and again....
Sep 23, 2020 | Non classé
Bacteria Could Provide Us with the Next Antivirals Virus-fighting viperins, part of the human immune system, turn out to have bacterial counterparts that might boost the fight against human disease By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting...
Jul 16, 2020 | Non classé
Matching drugs to tumors may lead to personalized treatment and new therapies 16.07.2020 Lung cancer samples: Far left untreated. Lung cancer tissue failed to respond when exposed to a microtubule inhibitor drug (left) or to a drug that enhanced the apoptosis-inducing...
Jun 24, 2020 | Non classé
An experiment in reconstructing primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle 22.06.2020 The characteristic (HhH)2 fold and its binding to the minor groove of a modern DNA molecule. How did the first ones form? What did the very first proteins look like – those...
Jun 23, 2020 | Non classé
Around one in two proposals put forward by Institute researchers for some of the most competitive grants receives funding 22.06.2020 The Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked seventh in Europe – and first in Israel – for the total number of research grants obtained...
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