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Dr. Zohar Komargodski

Dr. Zohar Komargodski of the Weizmann Institute Awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize

11.12.2012
Space & Physics
Komargodski is one of three promising young theoretical physicists to receive the Prize
white smell illustration

The Smell of White

22.11.2012
Brain & Behavior
Weizmann Institute scientists apply the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell  
Illustration: attaching plastic “whiskers” to the fingers of blindfolded volunteers and asking them to carry out a location task

Learning a New Sense

05.11.2012
Brain & Behavior
Weizmann Institute scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with ”whiskers”  
Alternative Energy Research Initiative (AERI)

New Grant to Fuel Solar Energy Research

24.10.2012
Particle Physics, Environment, Energy, Materials Science, Benefiting Humanity
The Helmsley Charitable Trust will fund joint research between the Weizmann Institute and the Technion
Immune Cells Make Flexible Choices

Immune Cells Make Flexible Choices

22.10.2012
Immunology, Genetics
Certain immune cell receptors are more common than mere chance would dictate. New research shows why  
Rejecting Arsenate

Rejecting Arsenate

22.10.2012
Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms
Institute scientists reveal how bacteria living in toxic environments identify and expel the poison  
Prostaglandins guard stem cells by increasing the production of an inhibitory factor in the mesenchymal bone marrow cells. Mesenchymal cells are marked with a green protein (left); the inhibitory factor is red (center). Combined image (right): Treatment with prostaglandins (bottom) increases the secretion of the inhibitory factor

Stem Cell Bodyguards

22.10.2012
Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Insights into rare immune cells that keep blood stem cells in a youthful state may lead to better treatments  
The experimental system: two supersonic valves followed by two skimmers. The blue beam passes through a curved magnetic quadrupole guide, and the merged beam (purple) enters a quadrupole mass spectrometer. B is a front view of the quadrupole guide

Weizmann Institute Scientists Observe Quantum Effects in Cold Chemistry

12.10.2012
Space & Physics, Quantum Physics, Chemistry
At close to absolute zero, chemical reactions take on new features  
cell and numbers. Image: Thinkstock

Weizmann Institute’s Mathematical Model May Lead to Safer Chemotherapy

12.09.2012
Cancer, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The study explains why certain patients develop severe infections after chemotherapy and points to ways of averting this side-effect  
Regulatory factor hierarchy: The highest level (top) determines a cell’s basic identity; the second (middle) shapes its properties; the third (bottom) activates genes according to changing conditions

Uncovering the Genome’s Regulatory Code

09.09.2012
Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics
A new, automated method for mapping protein-DNA interactions may lead to advances in personalized medicine  

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