molecules

Potential New Drug Molecule Identified

Potential New Drug Molecule Identified

Weizmann scientists have found that a unique method for identifying bioactive chemical compounds produces a potential new drug molecule. Our cells receive more messages than a teenager’s phone and, just as with those phones, we sometimes need a way to screen harmful...

A Rulebook for Living Cells

A Rulebook for Living Cells

New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and recently published in Nature Communications has delved into the process by which small sequences of RNA – microRNAs – regulate the long ones, predicting ways in which microRNAs would bind to the messenger...

Cold, Excited Molecules Change Shape

Cold, Excited Molecules Change Shape

The motion of an object after being hit depends to a large extent on its shape: A round ball will spin very differently from an elongated baton. Spinning molecules also come in different shapes, although they are never truly round. Professor Edvardas Narevicius and...