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December 2017

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Advancing Women in Science

The Israel National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science.

Ten years on, an innovative postdoc program for women is proving its worth. Click on the link for the full article: http://bit.ly/2hYrj0z

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Forefront of Science

Mirror Images

Chemistry

The optics of a unique underwater visual system are revealed

Tiny iridescent blue eyes peek out from the scallop's shell

Off Track: How Storms Will Veer in a Warmer World

Earth Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science research uncovers the internal mechanisms driving storms toward the poles

Google Earth map displaying storm tracks in the North Atlantic region.

Choosing the Right Weapons against Pathogens

Life Sciences

How low-affinity antibodies can still win in an immune system competition

A T cell selecting a B cell for entry into the immune response within a lymph node of a live anesthetized mouse, taken with two-photon laser scanning microcopy. T cell is red; high-affinity B cell is blue; high affinity B cells that do not express adhesion molecules are green

Thinking outside the Skeleton

Life Sciences

Scoliosis may be linked to problems with our "sixth sense"

Algae Open “Message in a Bottle” at Their Own Risk

Life Sciences

Are tiny packages of cellular material helping the algal cells or the viruses that infect them?

SkeletonsDr. Daniella Schatz and Prof. Assaf Vardi investigate a viral infection that affect the health of the planet

Freedom and Order in Our Inner World

Life Sciences

How does the brain impose boundaries on free recollection?

SkeletonsDr. Daniella Schatz and Prof. Assaf Vardi investigate a viral infection that affect the health of the planetCategory selective visual responses recorded intracranially in patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring. Electrodes located in these brain region show selective responses to faces. When the patient attempted to recall these images later on, the same electrode showed a sustained increase in activity, both during memory search and recall. The plot on the right shows the location of the electrode in the inferior temporal cortex

Revising the Genetic Message after It Is Sent

Life Sciences

Dr. Schraga Schwartz and his group are revealing in unprecedented detail a mechanism for controlling gene activity

A computer-generated representation of genetic building blocks – the nucleotides A, C, G and T – in the segment of the messenger RNA that tends to harbor an m1A modification. The A that becomes modified is marked by an arrow

From Around the Web

ANCESTRAL GENES TAKE ON NEW ROLES

The Jerusalem Post

The scientists started out with the assumption that evolution is an economical process; if a gene loses its function, it may well be “recycled” for different purposes in the cell.

Weizmann Institute of Science Collaborates on Plasma Physics Research at Cornell

BDS | Building Dialogue through Science

An international symposium this month is celebrating the labs's 50th anniversary

The Cornell Beam Research Accelerator is used in the Laboratory of Plasma Studies to deliver 150-nanosecond current pulses to various configurations of metal foils, cylinders and gas puffs in order to produce high energy density plasmas

Science for All - Davidson Institute of Science Education

How are hurricanes formed?

Is global warming really causing the occurrence of more destructive storms? Is it possible to stop a hurricane or divert it from its route?

Are redheads an endangered species?

Is the gene for ginger hair endangered? Genetics says: no reason to worry

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