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Bacteria in cancer cells
Life Sciences >
How Bacteria Hinder Chemotherapy
Scientists find bacteria in pancreatic tumors that metabolize a common...
Drs. Ran Peleg, Malka Yayon and Dvora Katchevich
Science Education
The Great Chemical Escape
A popular pastime gets educational
Asteroid Florence
Space & Physics >
Florence Flies By
A telescope at the Weizmann Institute of Science captures the path of an...
The hourglass like energy-momentum relation in a Weyl material
Space & Physics >
Closer to Understanding the Mysteries of the Universe
In Dr. Binghai Yan’s research, novel materials pave the way to new...
Net ball team
People and Events
Weizmann Women's Net Ball Team
Second place in the region, with dreams of winning in Eilat
Fluorescently labeled actin in a cell exhibiting circular ruffled membrane structures
Chemistry >
Reshaping the Surface: Wave Fronts Ruffle the Cell Membrane
A new model for the formation of crucial membrane structures revises the...
single-celled lining of the intestines under a microscope
Life Sciences >
Cell Economics 101
The lining of our intestines uses an approach known to business to quickly...
Beet-colored tomatoes
Life Sciences >
Rhapsody in Red Violet
Pigments made by beets may help boost resistance to disease and the...
Red, blue, green in nanolenses
Chemistry >
Nanomaterials Offer a New Approach to Correcting Color
Computer designed nanostructures do away with the need for multiple lenses...
Mars impact
Space & Physics >
Minerals in a Family of Asteroids Reveal Martian Roots
A new Institute study suggests "Trojan" asteriods were born in a giant...
Nano Comics -- Gen 3
Nano Comics -Third Generation
They're back, as curious as ever!!!

Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries from the Weizmann Institute of Science

Roy Naor
Space & Physics >

Getting Ready for Mars

02.01.2017
Israel’s official representative prepares to conduct geological research in a simulated Mars station  
heat transfer in graphene
Space & Physics >

Very Cold, but Oh-So Sensitive

02.01.2017
A nanothermometer is thousands of times better at detecting heat transfer at the atomic level
Observable Observatory 1 2
Science & Culture >

Virtual, Reality

01.01.2017
Dorit Feldman and Tamar Sheaffer  
buzzplay quiz
Science & Culture >

2016 Weizmann

21.12.2016
Think you know everything about the Weizmann Institute top stories? 
two vacuum chambers and the ultracold results
Space & Physics >

One in a Thousand

19.12.2016
Heating up: One ion and thousands of atoms, all at a millionth of a degree above absolute zero 
Chandra/Harvard
Space & Physics >

Mystery of Super Flash Solved

Press Release
15.12.2016
The brightest flash of light in the cosmos could be a rare event involving a star and a supermassive black hole
gene editing in single cells
Life Sciences >

Gene Editing Takes on New Roles

Press Release
15.12.2016
A new combined method may finally give scientists a tool fine enough to probe life’s most nuanced processes  
Bacteria (red) in mouse intestines; intestinal cells (blue); and antibodies (green) in the mucus layer coating the intestines and preventing direct contact between the bacteria and the sterile mouse cells, photographed under a fluorescent microscope
Life Sciences >

Gut Bacteria Have Outsized Influence

12.12.2016
A new study reveals how our microbiomes affect the timing of liver activity
drug cocktails
Life Sciences >

How to Mix the Perfect Cocktail

Press Release
07.12.2016
A new model can predict drug interactions and side effects even between a large number of components
Crystal structure
Chemistry >

Crystallization Made Crystal Clear

Press Release
07.12.2016
The instant of crystallization – as it has never before been seen
Wild faba
Chemistry >

In Search of the Wild Fava Bean

Press Release
07.12.2016
Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today's fava beans
The green fluorescent label maps the distribution of calcium in sea urchin larvae. The label shows the elongated mineralized spicules and vesicles with large amounts of calcium
Chemistry >

Making Spines from Sea Water

Press Release
30.11.2016
How do creatures like sea urchins take up the calcium they need to build hard structures? 
A section of a ripe tomato sample showing the distribution of sucrose (orange) in the flesh and of an antioxidant (green) in the fruit skin tissue; mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) technology was used to map the molecules
Life Sciences >

Wise Plant Analysis

Press Release
30.11.2016
Weizmann Institute’s WeizMass and MatchWeiz help identify plant metabolites
Double treatment kills cancer cells
Life Sciences >

Double Whammy for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Press Release
30.11.2016
New Weizmann Institute of Science research provides hope for cancer patients 

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The ions in the center of the cluster are cooled to the lowest temperatures, and can then be further accelerated in the ion beam trap
18.09.2017
Colder and Colder
Humans and fish share about 70% of their protein-coding genes, but only about 0.5% of their regulatory long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
18.09.2017
Genomic Recycling: Ancestral Genes Take On New Roles
Cancerous tumor tissue under a microscope:
18.09.2017
Altitude Training for Cancer-Fighting Cells

Weizmann in the Media

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New Scientist
18.09.2017

Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs

Jewish News - Times of Israel
31.08.2017

Students compete to learn from Weizmann’s legacy

The Jerusalem Post
27.08.2017

New technique improves properties of superconductors

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