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SpaceIL

A Message to the Moon

26.02.2015

SpaceIL and the Weizmann Institute will host an online space trivia game leading up to Science Education Week

A chicken heart muscle cell under a fluorescent microscope; the filaments consist of repeated subunits (bright dotted lines). The schematic representation shows three neighboring filaments; the black lines are the boundaries of their subunits, such that the lower filament is aligned with the middle one, while the upper one is not

In a Heartbeat

26.02.2015

Materials Science

A new model shows that the filaments in heart muscle cells don't automatically keep the beat

Manot skull

When Age Matters

26.02.2015

Scientific Archaeology

The precise dating of ancient charcoal found near a skull is helping reveal a unique period in prehistory

Japanese and Israeli scientists at the Advances in Brain Sciences conference

Israel-Japan Conference to Foster Cooperation in Brain Research

21.01.2015

Brain & Behavior

The Advances in Brain Sciences conference was held at the Weizmann Institute and hosted with the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Some brains are idiosyncratic

Autistic Brains Go Their Own Way

21.01.2015

Brain & Behavior

A new Weizmann Institute study reveals the idiosyncratic brain patterns of autism

Peruvian teachers in the Blue Planet workshop

Thinking Locally

21.01.2015

Science Teaching

An educational module developed at the Weizmann Institute will be included in the Peruvian science curriculum

Clusters of human embryonic stem cells that were differentiated to an early germ cell (PGC) state (colored cells). Each color reveals the expression of a different gene. (l-r) NANOS3, NANOG, OCT4 and, on the right, all three combined in a single image

Human Primordial Cells Created in the Lab

24.12.2014

Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Fertility, Genetics

A cell programming technique developed at the Weizmann Institute turns them into the earliest precursors of sperm and ova

bat

3D Compass in the Brain

03.12.2014

Brain & Behavior

A study on bats' flight pinpoints the neurons that tell us which way we are headed

Prof. Haim Garty, z"l

Prof. Haim Garty, Vice President of the Weizmann Institute, 1948-2014

30.11.2014

The boy who grew up in the “backyard” of the Institute became an esteemed scientist and Vice President of the “wonderful place”

Fluorescent image of Baker's yeast cells showing that the yeast Presenilin-like protein, Ypf1 (green), is found in the same cellular area as Presenilin, around the nucleus

Pumping Zinc

18.11.2014

Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal an unusual cellular mechanism that may be faulty in Alzheimer’s disease

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