Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has revealed the structure of a cellular editor that "cuts and pastes" the first draft of RNA straight after it is formed from its DNA template. Many diseases appear to be tied to mistakes in this process, and understanding the workings of the machinery involved may lead to the ability to correct or...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
A team of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed the structure of a cellular editor that "cuts and pastes" the first draft of RNA straight after it is formed from its DNA template. Many diseases appear to be tied to mistakes in this process, and understanding the workings of the machinery involved may lead to the ability to correct or...Scientists identify a gene causing a fatal heart condition, common in an Israeli Bedouin tribe
Rehovot, Israel March 4, 2002-- A team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Sheba Medical Center has identified a gene causing polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (PVT), a fatal heart condition. Characterized by a fast and irregular heartbeat, seizures, and in certain cases, sudden death, PVT primarily affects young children. ......The mutation, which was found in a Be...Israeli scientists block the progression of Type I diabetes
Rehovot, Israel -- November 26, 2001--A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science has developed a unique approach for halting the progression of Type I (juvenile or insulin-dependent) diabetes.... ...Cohen and Dr. Dana Elias (then a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute) discovered that injecting mice with a small peptide fragment known as p277 prevents the p...Rehovot, Israel--Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and from Hadassah University Hospital have identified the gene that in its mutated form causes a degenerative muscle disease known as hereditary inclusion body myopathy, or HIBM. This disease is common in Jews from Iran and from neighboring Middle Eastern countries, but it also occurs in non-Jews in different parts of the world...Israeli teams grows heart cells and insulin producing cells from human embryonic stem cells
...... HAIFA, Israel and NEW YORK, N.Y., - Since the isolation of human embryonic stem cells three years ago, scientists have been excited about the prospect of using these cells to produce all the different types of tissues in our body, such as heart tissue to repair damaged hearts. ... Now researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have for the first time succeeded in growing...Israeli fertility experts call for international chromosome registry
...Lausanne, Switzerland: If a woman undergoing artificial reproductive techniques suffers repeated failures of embryos to implant in her uterus it may be because she has a chromosomal abnormality, according to new findings by Israeli fertility experts.... ......A team from the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre in Tel Aviv carried out genetic screening on 65 couples who had experienced repeated embr.... . .BALTIMORE, MD June 1, 2001 The Maryland/Israel Development Center, with the support of Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening and Israeli Ambassador David Ivry, officially launched today a pioneering program that partners the biotech research communities in the State of Maryland and Israel. At a press briefing held at the Institute of Human Virology (IHV), Hanan Sibel, chairman of the Ma....HAIFA, Israel and NEW YORK, N.Y., April 13, 2001 Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a kosher white wine with the beneficial effects of red wine. In a related study, they also found that an Israeli wine has more of the health-promoting chemicals than its French counterparts.. .Prof. Aviram will present his findings at the New York Academy of Sciences Alcohol.... Scientists from Johns Hopkins and two Israeli universities have.discovered another likely benefit of the much-touted legume, soybeans: They may.bring pain relief. A new study shows that laboratory rats fed a diet containing.soy meal develop far less pain after nerve injury than their counterparts on.soy-free diets.. . "In people, strong individual differences exist in the perce...