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A cryo-scanning electron microscope image of a freeze-fractured chloroplast, cropped from the surrounding tissue, providing a view into the photosynthetic membranes and the protein complexes embedded within them

Into the Light

16.09.2024
Nutrition, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
Will a better understanding of photosynthesis help us grow plants under artificial light?
Photo: Jonathan D. Muller

The Solar Forest

21.11.2023
Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
A new Weizmann Institute study shows that building solar farms in arid regions is a far more effective way to tackle the climate crisis than planting...
An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a hitherto unseen rate

Building Better Enzymes – by Breaking Them Down

12.01.2023
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology
In a major step toward greener industry, Weizmann Institute scientists create a computational method for generating enzymes with unprecedented...
nanotube walls

The Tiny Nanotube That Can

30.06.2019
Nanoscience, Materials Science, Energy
Adding to nanotubes' abilities: superconductors and solar cells 
biofuel feedstock

Breakdance of the Cohesins: Revealing a Breakdown Structure’s Flexible Side

28.02.2019
Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Energy, Biotechnology
Deconstructing the enzymes that deconstruct plant biomass
micro crystals

Solar Materials Found to Be Self-Healing

26.02.2018
Environment, Energy, Materials Science
These materials can bring us one step closer to a sustainable future
chiral molecules select electron spins

Controlling Electron Spin for Efficient Water Splitting

13.02.2017
Nano Physics, Quantum Physics, Energy, Nanoscience, Materials Science
The method could lead to solar-based production of hydrogen for fuel 
steak and hummus

Pay as You Eat

21.11.2016
Genetics, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture
New research on the environmental cost of beef vs legumes
illustration: CO2-eating E coli

Eating Air, Making Fuel

23.06.2016
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Environment, Energy
Weizmann Institute scientists engineer bacteria to create sugar from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide  
Dr. Ishai Dror

Dr. Ishai Dror

01.09.2015
Environment, Environment, Energy
Dr. Ishai Dror received the Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists awarded by the Scientific Council.  

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