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Order Trumps Disorder

Explaining the self-healing properties of a remarkable material

Soma Ghosh

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Dr. Soma Ghosh: Living her Dream

"We attain higher achievement, better results and the opportunity to...

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Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes

Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma...

Enhancing Our Understanding of Cell Diversity

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Enhancing Our Understanding of Cell Diversity

A new method, developed by Dr. Yonatan Stelzer, uncovered some fateful...

Opposite Attraction: Magnets Separate Mirror-Image Crystals

Opposite Attraction: Magnets Separate Mirror-Image Crystals

The method may be used to purify drugs and numerous other chemicals

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Taking into Account a Hebrew Cement Plant

Dr. Chaim Weizmann played a role in building the country – literally

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What We Did this Summer

One day in August was dedicated to math for 60 young math lovers

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Bar Sagi Tiling: From Refrigerator Door to Mathematics Journal

“Proper Self-Similar Triangle Tiling,” a demanding exercise in drawing and...

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Telling Left from Right by Spinning Them with Light

Using lasers to separate chiral molecules had been predicted - but never...

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

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An Algorithm that Rivals Experts Could Save Lives

A joint venture of the Weizmann Institute of Science and New York University recently won first place in a competition for innovation in echocardiography

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Disrupted Nitrogen Metabolism Might Spell Cancer

Tests show that too little of this basic element is as problematic as too much

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Profs. Ellen Moons and David Cahen

Made at the Institute: Prof. Ellen Moons, Karlstad University, Sweden

Prof. Moons, a member of the Swedish Academy, recently came to the Institute for the 70th birthday of Prof. David Cahen

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Lowering the Barrier: Electrons Seen Tunneling through Proteins

Uncovering quantum effects in the molecules in our bodies may lead to future biotech developments

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A “walk” in composition space for a lipid world molecular assembly, shown in simplified 3 dimensions. A point on the line signifies a specific composition along the time axis, whereby the three coordinates are amounts of the three different molecule types. A composome (pink background) is a time interval when the composition stays almost unchanged, signifying compositional replication.

A Century-Old Model for Life’s Origin Gets Significant Substantiation

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The effects of p53 in cancer-associated fibroblasts on cancer cell migration

Switching Sides: The Betrayal of an Anti-Cancer Gene

Reeducating cells in the tumor microenvironment reverses some of the malignancy

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Response to treatment in cancer cells: The abundance of the EGFR (top row) and HER2 (bottom row) receptors is reduced when the cells are exposed to triple therapy – Tagrisso, Erbitux and Herceptin (right column) and to the two antibodies, Erbitux and Herceptin (second from right column), but not when they are exposed to Tagrisso alone (second column from left) or to no therapy at all (left column)

Combined Approach Offers Hope to Lung Cancer Patients Who Become Resistant to Drugs

Three drugs together block growth from without and within

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Blood Moon. Image: Thinkstock

Two Spectacular Celestial Events Grace our Skies at the End of July

Israel is privileged to have “front-row” viewings of a blood moon and the simultaneous alignment of four planets

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Hot, Dense and Fast

Electrons in a “viscous flow” surpass conductivity limits and could lead to new types of electronic devices

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Silver Eyes are a Triple Treat

The iris in the zebrafish has a distinctive crystal structure that both camouflages the eye and prevents unwanted light from entering

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A Genetic Test for Aging

How do the mutations that accumulate in our blood cells affect our health in later years?

Fluorite. Credit: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

Nanocrystals Give MRI a New Shine

A “crazy idea” for using fluoride nanocrystals as magnetic resonance tracers could lead to new clinical imaging methods

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Microscope image of a yeast cell showing how close mitochondria (red) are to peroxisomes (blue) and the contact sites that hold them together (green)

Tethered in the Cell

Weizmann researchers identify new ties between the parts of a cell: physical connections that are vital for health

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Game of Clones: Team Huddles for T Cells

When helper T cells get together, they plan an immune strategy for the long and the short term

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Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes

Firework Memories

Next-Gen Israeli Satellite to Seek out Cosmic Explosions and Black Holes

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Times of Israel

18.09.2019

Cell diversity in tumors prevents effective immune responses – study

XINHUANET

18.09.2019

Israeli scientists develop innovative method for observing fetal cell development

Glocalist

18.09.2019

How Memory works: Firework! Weizmann Institute uncovered a new neuronal mechanism.

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