Paying the Price of Protection

Paying the Price of Protection

A new model of autoimmune disease may solve some great outstanding riddles, including what causes T cells to attack and why only certain organs get them 19.05.2020 Single-organ autoimmune diseases attack particular organs, eg., the thyroid, adrenals and beta cells in...
How to Neutralize the Coronavirus: Learning from the Body

How to Neutralize the Coronavirus: Learning from the Body

Making copies of existing antibodies could be fast track to treatment 12.05.2020 A niche within a lymph node in which antibody-forming cells are generated   Recovered COVID-19 patients continue to produce coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies, keeping them as a...
The Self-Synthesizing Ribosome

The Self-Synthesizing Ribosome

This cellular factory-on-a-chip could be used to design, produce and test drugs against antibiotic resistant bacteria 20.04.2020 Visual representation of the self-assembly process: Synthesis of proteins and ribosomal RNA from synthetic DNA strands attached to a chip...
Coronavirus by the Numbers

Coronavirus by the Numbers

31.03.2020 Rate of similarity between the coronavirus genome and the genome of other viruses belonging to same family. (l-r) Bat coronavirus; pangolin coronavirus; SARS virus; MERS virus; coronavirus causing the “common cold” Numerical data sometimes reveal facts that...
Two Steps Ahead of the Coronavirus

Two Steps Ahead of the Coronavirus

A method of predicting the coronavirus spread, pioneered and developed by Weizmann Institute scientists, may enable the authorities to focus efforts on areas where an outbreak is anticipated – and relieve measures taken in others 22.03.2020 Gush Dan Neighborhoods:...