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Unclogging the Immune System

Unclogging the Immune System

Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed how aging cells evade our immune systems and propose developing an innovative treatment for age-related diseases and chronic inflammation. Whenever a sink overflows, the flooding is usually caused by a blockage that has...

AI Flexes Its Muscles

AI Flexes Its Muscles

Life sciences have never been more digital. To learn more about life processes, biologists are collecting massive quantities of data that computer scientists analyse by means of sophisticated computational models that they develop. Over the past few years, Dr Ori...

Cells and the City

Cells and the City

Tracing the evolution of protein maintenance in cellular ‘boroughs’, students of the Weizmann Institute’s Professor Dan Tawfik's have now published their study following his untimely death. When we contemplate the grandeur of life that evolution has crafted – a...

The Dark Side of the Bone

The Dark Side of the Bone

The discovery of stem cell light and darkness cycles may advance bone marrow transplantation according to new research. Bone marrow replenishes the blood daily with billions of short-lived mature cells, all the while maintaining a full pool of immature stem cells....

Looking in Cellular Trash Cans for Answers

Looking in Cellular Trash Cans for Answers

A novel technology developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science for profiling protein turnover and degradation is offering new insight into diagnosis and understanding the molecular basis of autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration and other disorders. If we really...