[HTML][HTML] Bacterial programmed cell death and multicellular behavior in bacteria

H Engelberg-Kulka, S Amitai, I Kolodkin-Gal… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Traditionally, programmed cell death (PCD) is associated with eukaryotic multicellular
organisms. However, recently, PCD systems have also been observed in bacteria. Here we …

CRISPR–Cas adaptation: insights into the mechanism of action

G Amitai, R Sorek - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Since the first demonstration that CRISPR–Cas systems provide bacteria and archaea with
adaptive immunity against phages and plasmids, numerous studies have yielded key …

Self-targeting by CRISPR: gene regulation or autoimmunity?

A Stern, L Keren, O Wurtzel, G Amitai, R Sorek - Trends in genetics, 2010 - cell.com
The recently discovered prokaryotic immune system known as CRISPR (clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats) is based on small RNAs (‘spacers') that restrict phage …

Laboratory studies on the feeding, development and reproduction of the predaceous mites Amblyseius rubini Swirski and Amitai and Amblyseius swirski Athias …

E Swirski, S Amitai, N Dorzia - 1967 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The following is virtually the authors' summary of this account of studies in the laboratory in
Israel in 1964-66 on the development of the predacious Phytoseiids Amblyseius rubini (…

GAN-based synthetic medical image augmentation for increased CNN performance in liver lesion classification

M Frid-Adar, I Diamant, E Klang, M Amitai… - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Deep learning methods, and in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led
to an enormous breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks, primarily by using …

Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome

…, G Ofir, A Leavitt, A Lopatina, M Keren, G Amitai… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Bacteria and archaea are frequently attacked by viruses (phages) and as a
result have developed multiple, sophisticated lines of active defense that can collectively be …

Intrinsic oscillations of neocortex generated by layer 5 pyramidal neurons

LR Silva, Y Amitai, BW Connors - Science, 1991 - science.org
Rhythmic activity in the neocortex varies with different behavioral and pathological states
and in some cases may encode sensory information. However, the neural mechanisms of …

Synthetic data augmentation using GAN for improved liver lesion classification

M Frid-Adar, E Klang, M Amitai… - 2018 IEEE 15th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a data augmentation method that generates synthetic medical images
using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We propose a training scheme that first …

[HTML][HTML] The liver tumor segmentation benchmark (lits)

…, N Lev-Cohain, M Drozdzal, MM Amitai… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS),
which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on …

[PDF][PDF] An expanded arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages

…, Z Erez, JLM Ferrer, D Dar, A Kacen, G Amitai… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Bacterial anti-phage systems are frequently clustered in microbial genomes, forming defense
islands. This property enabled the recent discovery of multiple defense systems based on …