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Can the Collective Wisdom of Bugs Help Solve Human Problems?
Can the Collective Wisdom of Bugs Help Solve Human Problems?

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/can-the-collective-wisdom-of-bugs-help-solve-human-problems/

Dec 08, 2022... Can the Collective Wisdom of Bugs Help Solve Human Problems?

TAGS: Community, Biology, Physics, Evolution, Robots, Algorithims, Behavior, Nature

Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades
Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/answering-a-question-that-has-bugged-ecologists-for-decades/

Feb 03, 2023... REHOVOT, ISRAEL— February 3, 2023 Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors and in our plumbing systems, even in our food and on our bodies. But while we often are inconvenienced by this group of invertebrates – which comprises more than a million species, including all insects – their absence would be catastrophic: Arthropods are ecosystem engineers that pollinate our crops, turn over agricultural soils and sustain an enormous diversity of predators, from warblers to wolverines, that feed on them directly or indirectly.

TAGS: Environment, Climate change, Plants, Biology, Earth, Nature

Treating a Heart Attack Before It Happens
Treating a Heart Attack Before It Happens

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Mar 08, 2023... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 8, 2023— Imagine getting treatment for a perfectly healthy young heart that would allow it to recover from an otherwise devastating injury decades later.
If you think this prospect seems farfetched, you are not alone. Until recently, Prof. Eldad Tzahor, whose lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science studies heart tissue regeneration, had also considered it science fiction. After all, cardiovascular diseases, which are humanity’s leading cause of death, aren’t generally perceived as something one can prepare for through preventive treatment. But Tzahor and researchers in his lab have now activated a cellular mechanism in healthy mouse hearts that makes these mice resilient to future heart attacks – even when they occur months later.

TAGS: Genetics, Medicine, Biochemistry, Biology, Stem cells, Heart, Heart disease

Meet 007: The Cell with a License to Kill Cancer, Created by an Israeli Startup
Meet 007: The Cell with a License to Kill Cancer, Created by an Israeli Startup

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Aug 08, 2023... To protect itself against disease, the human body has immune cells that patrol like police officers, entering disease cells and destroying them. But some dangerous cells, including some solid tumors, operate in stealth and cannot be targeted by the body’s regular immune system.
Edity Therapeutics, an Israeli startup founded in 2019, reprograms a patient’s own immune cells, giving them the ability to hunt down and destroy these cancer cells. It’s like transforming regular beat cops into lethal supersleuths.

TAGS: Genetics, Medicine, Cancer, Biology, Cancer treatment, Immunotherapy, Clinical trials, Blood

Israeli study finds biological treatment effective for lung cancer
Israeli study finds biological treatment effective for lung cancer

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/israeli-study-finds-biological-treatment-effective-for-lung-cancer/

Aug 08, 2023... Israeli study finds biological treatment effective for lung cancer

TAGS: Genetics, Medicine, Cancer, Biology, Cancer treatment, Immunotherapy, Clinical trials, Blood

Surviving on an Empty Battery
Surviving on an Empty Battery

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Aug 17, 2023... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 17, 2023—Every time we make a call, send a text message, or watch a video, some of the energy stored in the cell phone battery is depleted. Living cells also store energy in “currencies” they can cash in when needed to fuel life processes. The main energy currency used by all life on Earth is a molecule known as ATP. But even though charging cells with ATP molecules is of vital importance, discharging them could be equally crucial – and potentially lifesaving.

TAGS: Biochemistry, Biology, Immune system, Bacteria, Virus, Proteins, Biomolecular sciences, Molecular cell biology, Microbiology

Structure Matters: Dynamic Models of Complete, Day 14 Human Embryos Grown from Stem Cells in a Weizmann Lab
Structure Matters: Dynamic Models of Complete, Day 14 Human Embryos Grown from Stem Cells in a Weizmann Lab

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/structure-matters-dynamic-models-of-complete-day-14-human-embryos-grown-from-stem-cells-in-a-weizmann-lab/

Sep 05, 2023... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 6, 2023—A research team headed by Prof. Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute of Science has created complete models of human embryos from stem cells cultured in the lab – and managed to grow them outside the womb up to day 14. As reported today in Nature, these synthetic embryo models had all the structures and compartments characteristic of this stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac and other external tissues that ensure dynamic and adequate growth.

TAGS: Women, Biology, Stem cells, Fertility

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