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scientific picture. A XNUMXD model system of human neurons in a dish. In green and purple: nerve cells expressing a protein that is defective in the ubiquitin system. As a result of this expression, the pathology that characterizes Alzheimer's patients is created - the formation of amyloid clusters (in red) outside the cells

Technion researchers have identified the mechanism leading to the formation of protein aggregates involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease

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Toxic proteins accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. In the familial Alzheimer's patients, the accumulation mechanism is clear since there is a circumstantial relationship between the mutations and the identity of the defective proteins. In the random disease, on the other hand, the reason for the accumulation of the defective proteins was unknown
Chuan Ha, 2023 Wolf Prize Winners in Chemistry, photo courtesy of the Prize Committee

Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 2023 to three researchers who studied RNA

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The winners are: Chuan Ha, University of Chicago, USA, Jeffrey Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, USA, Hiroaki Shuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
A virus under a microscope. Illustration: depositphotos.com

For the first time in the world: about a hundred thousand new types of viruses that were unknown to science were identified

The researchers were even able to identify which creatures the viruses might attack, a discovery that is expected to help promote the development of different bacterial, fungal and pest killers for agriculture
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RNA 90210

On the genetic equivalent of postal targeting - and on the decisive differences between linear and circular molecules
There are more RNA viruses in the sea than researchers previously thought. Guillermo Domínguez Huerta, CC BY-ND

Researchers have identified more than 5,000 new viruses in the sea, including a missing link in virus evolution

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An analysis of the genetic material in the sea identified thousands of previously unknown RNA viruses and doubled the number of systems, or biological groups, of viruses thought to exist, according to a new study published by our team of researchers in the journal Science
Prof. Dan Farr (Photo: Yonatan Blum)

Unique RNA technology for personalized cancer medicine

The nanomedicine that attacks cancer twice: both improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy and strengthens the immune system
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President for Research at Bar-Ilan University

A Bar-Ilan researcher found an RNA molecule unknown to science

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The new RNA, of a non-coding type, was discovered in research in the laboratory of Prof. Shulamit Michaeli at Bar-Ilan University. A breakthrough that may contribute to the development of new drugs * The vaccine successfully developed against the corona virus will lead to the development of RNA-based drugs
Micro RNA. Illustration: Prof. Robert Johnson, Temple University

Deepening our knowledge in understanding the RNA molecule allowed us to produce a rapid vaccine for Corona

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This is according to the decision of the Wolf Prize Committee for 2021 in medicine. The judges' announcement stated that these scientists made breakthrough discoveries in the mechanisms that regulate RNA and demonstrated that RNA is not a passive template between DNA and protein but plays a dominant role in regulating and diversifying genetic expression
Naomi Habib Photo by Moshe Volkowitz

The mystery of the Hadassah tests has been solved: researchers from the Hebrew University have developed a cheap and fast method for diagnosing corona

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Testing for the detection of the corona virus. Illustration: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Identification of the corona virus in 15 minutes

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Illustration. Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.

The cell's rule book

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Humans share with fish about 70% of the genes that encode proteins, but only 0.5% of the genes belonging to the control group that produce lncRNA. Image: pixabay.

Genetic recycling: new roles for ancient genes

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

For the first time, boron was found on Mars, a discovery that strengthens the possibility that life existed on it in the past

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From the right: Shira Weingarten-Gabai, Shani Elias-Kirma, Prof. Eran Segal and Der Ronit Nir. Genetic Engineering

control areas

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Prof. Dan Farr (Photo: Yonatan Blum)

Researchers succeeded in producing particles to transport new drugs and doubled the lifespan of mice with human lymphoma

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DNA replication using RNA. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers from the Hebrew University have cracked a mechanism that will contribute to the understanding of muscular dystrophy

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DNA replication using RNA. Illustration: shutterstock

The RNA Revolution / Christine Gorman and Dina Payne Maron

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gene therapy. Illustration: shutterstock

The shape of the RNA molecules constitutes another code

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Prof. Roni Zager, Weizmann Institute

Relay race

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TNA molecule. A candidate as an alternative to RNA in pre-cellular life

Strange cousins: Molecular alternatives to DNA and RNA provide new insight into the origin of life

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XNUMXD visualization of the adenine molecule. From Wikipedia

New information regarding the genetic material adenine

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The netilmicin compound (from Wikipedia).

A new method for finding new drugs

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Prof. Ruth Sperling

A grant to Prof. Sperling from the Hebrew University and Prof. Stamm from the University of Kentucky for obesity research

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A nano square from RNA. Photo: University of California at San Diego

Chemists synthesized a "nano-square" from RNA for the first time

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A burned cellular base station in the Halisa neighborhood, Haifa. From Wikipedia

"There is no certainty of the existence of a significant risk for cell phone users"

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