genetics

Some acquired traits are actually transmitted to next generations.

The tendency towards obesity isn't solely up to genetic hand me downs through someone's parents, it also comes from environmental factors such as nutrition and exercise as well.

“Everyone, I need help. I found this picture on a Tel Aviv street,” Ariel Plavnik, a 43-year-old tourism salesperson from Kfar Saba, Israel, wrote in Hebrew and Spanish in the Facebook post.

The sequence was for a strain responsible for a recent outbreak in Beijing.

Patients with blood type A were linked to a 50% increase in the likelihood in needing to get oxygen or go on a ventilator

'It is not permissible to publish studies or spread ideas only to reassure people in a wrong way, and in a way that reduces their interest in fighting a dangerous virus such as the coronavirus'

In late March, Genetics giant BGI announced it would be working alongside Israeli company MyHeritage to build a lab capable of testing up to 10,000 people a day for coronavirus.

The lab will be able to perform over 10,000 tests per day and is expected to be completed by April 9.

Similarly, the US Preventive Services Task Force issued a recommendation that Ashkenazim in general, and not only those with a family history of cancer, should be tested for BRCA mutations.

The Angelman Clinic at the Sheba Medical Center and the Israeli Angelman Syndrome Foundation are working closely at the forefront of advances in treating and managing this rare disease.