“Lord of the Rings” Protein Jump-Starts Nerve Repair

“Lord of the Rings” Protein Jump-Starts Nerve Repair

Hidden from view, a central repair protein is made to order 16.04.2018 Large amounts of the mTOR protein (magenta) appear in the sciatic nerve after injury (three images on the right), but are not present in the uninjured nerve (far left) When the body needs to repair...
A Rulebook for Living Cells

A Rulebook for Living Cells

New research delves into the process by which small sequences of RNA – microRNAs – regulate the long ones 12.04.2018 (l-r) Prof. Eran Segal and Ilya Slutskin are uncovering the basis of RNA binding On top of the basic code of life – the genes that encode all of the...

Photons Stopped in Time

A new method of trapping single photons could bring quantum memory one step closer 15.03.2018 (l-r) Dr. Eilon Poem, Ohr Lahad, Dr. Ofer Firstenberg and Ran Finkelstein are trapping photons on demand How do you stop light in midflight and hold on to it – even for a...