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Uri Alon
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Uri Alon

Professor of molecular cell biology, Weizmann Institute of Science

Alon is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, trained in theoretical physics, who was named a visiting professor in bioengineering at Stanford University in 2021. His lab led a Nature Medicine study of over a million women's lab results that describes menopause as a sudden, body-wide shift.

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WHAT TO WATCHWhether his team applies the same method to other life changes such as puberty, pregnancy or the onset of disease, as he has said it could.

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    Israeli study: Menopause can reshape women’s bodies in a sudden shift | The Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
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    Scientists studied 1 million women before menopause—one pattern stood out Newsweek