In a new study, researchers describe a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide. Learn more on #DNADay: https://scim.ag/3OEc2RV

פרק חדש בפודקאסט! רוצו להאזין! הפעם עם פרופ' ג'פרי גרסט, חוקר במחלקה לגנטיקה מולקולרית במכון ויצמן. דיברנו על ספרו החדש, על חומרים פסכודליים וכיצד ניתן ליישב את הדרישה ההולכת ועולה לחומרים האלו בשדה הרפואי, לבין הפגיעה הסביבתית והאתית הכרוכה לעיתים בייצורם. lbscience.podbean.com/e/%d7%a4%d7%...

Hypoxia-induced mitoROS triggers M1 linear ubiquitin chains and activates NF-κB signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

we got the cover!!! Novel light-driven schizorhodopsins from Antarctic Minisyncoccota (Patescibacteria) and cyanobacteria www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Chasing Light in the Ice:Ariel Chazan's Search for Microbial Rhodopsins www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgTH...

The Stability Paradox – How Do Organisms Change Shape Over the Course of Evolution? www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

Iron-limitation light switch www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new review! Chromatin mechanics and regulatory protein function: insights from single-molecule force spectroscopy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Compact Spectral Encoding Microscopy by Terrace Grating Optics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

De novo mutations mediate phenotypic switching in an opportunistic human lung pathogen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deep learning on histopathological images to predict breast cancer recurrence risk and chemotherapy benefit: a multicentre, model development and validation study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A single-nucleotide enhancer mutation overrides chromosomal sex to drive XX male development www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak www.nature.com/articles/d41...

CONGRATULATIONS Debbie!!! Prof. Debbie Lindell was named fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) fems-microbiology.org/european-aca...

Announcing StrainVis! 🦠🧫🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This nifty web-based tool allows you to visualize your strain level analyses. You can combine ANI and synteny based analyses and it will make all kinds of cool publication ready plots for you - examples follow. By Hagay Enav and Inbal Paz:

A Double International Honor for the Technion: Prof. Debbie Lindell Recognized by Leading Scientific Societies www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

CONGRATULATIONS galitzlil.bsky.social for receiving the Gutwirth award for the Technion best paper in 2025!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

more photos! @aslo.org Hutchinson Award ceremony. CONGRATULATIONS to our colleague Prof. Debbie Lindell!

Registration and abstract submission for the international CE neuro meeting are now open!

CONGRATULATIONS Debbie!!! Debbie Lindell was named as one of 63 new Fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology asm.org/press-releas...

@aslo.org has just announced the winner of the Hutchinson Award, and this year it goes to our colleague Prof. Debbie Lindell! This is a huge recognition of the groundbreaking research that Debbie and her team have been doing over the past few years. www.aslo.org/aslo-honors-...

we got the best lab video for 2026!!!

Faculty Retreat 2026......

Engineering a Mechanoresponsive DNA Origami Capsule for Drug Delivery to Narrowed Arteries pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Glad we could contribute to this interesting work from Yuval Garini's lab. Kudos to Hadas Omer and the team: Hadeel_Khamis, Zipora Lansky, Netanel Korin, Racheli Boeangiu

Molecular mechanisms underlying p62-dependent secretion of the Alzheimer-associated ubiquitin variant UBB+1 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to @nirstrugo.bsky.social. His paper was chosen as the Faculty paper of the month for December 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Laila Bishara. Her paper was chosen as the Faculty paper of the month for November 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

congratulations to @omernadel.bsky.social. his paper was chosen as the paper of the month in our faculty @biologytechnion.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ברכות ל @omernadel.bsky.social . המאמר שלו נבחר למאמר החודש בפקולטה!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asteroids, antibiotics and ants: a year of remarkable science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@galitzlil.bsky.social receives the @biologytechnion.bsky.social award for the best paper of 2025

גלי צליל @galitzlil.bsky.social מקבלת את פרס מאמר השנה הפקולטי ל2025

Our BEHIND THE STORY. A glimpse into the role of auxiliary metabolic genes in cyanophages during infection communities.springernature.com/posts/a-glim...

Still need to use up 2025 funding? Places available for @embo.org Lab Leadership for #Postdocs course 27–29 January! Take time to focus on interpersonal skills + discover tools to support development. Sign up now and still get invoice this year: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

#פידמדע וכדאי להזכיר גם את 3 הזוכות הנוספות: מורן יסעור מהעברית. @leeat-keren.bsky.social מווייצמן @meravcohen.bsky.social מתל-אביב

Dr. Ayala Shiber from the Technion has been selected to join the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Program www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

ד"ר אילה שיבר מהטכניון נבחרה לתוכנית החוקרים הצעירים של הארגון האירופי לביולוגיה מולקולרית (EMBO) www.technion.ac.il/blog/article...

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

Congratulations to our Dr. Ayala Shiber for becoming a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (YIP) www.embo.org/press-releas...

Call for Nominations for the Annual Faculty of Biology Conference Award, 2026 biology.technion.ac.il/en/call-for-...

Paper of the Month September 2025 Winner – Almog Angel! biology.technion.ac.il/en/paper-of-...

xCell 2.0: robust algorithm for cell type proportion estimation predicts response to immune checkpoint blockade link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Using a combination of X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM, a new study from @landaulabcssb.bsky.social shows that amyloids,form different structures that could be useful as a natural mechanism of immune protection. More info: t1p.de/4n8se @amyloid-sam.bsky.social @emilgustavsson.bsky.social

Light-harvesting by antenna-containing xanthorhodopsin from an Antarctic Pseudanabaenaceae cyanobacterium www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Behavioral age-detection in individuals reconstructs minute-scale developmental transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Distinct cis-acting elements combinatorically mediate co-localization of mRNAs encoding for co-translational interactors in cytoplasmic clusters in S. cerevisiae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Machine Learning Identifies Common Risk Variants and Implicates Abnormal Vision Physiology in ASD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecular mechanisms underlying p62-dependent secretion of the Alzheimer-associated ubiquitin variant, UBB+1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic Tumor Immune Microenvironment Remodeling Predicts Response of Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage lysis-associated life-history traits from population-scale dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...