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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rare-disorder-found-have-common-form
June 16, 2015
A hereditary autoimmune disease that was thought to be exceedingly rare may have a less severe form that affects one in 1,000 people or even more, according to new research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, and the University of Bergen, in Norway. The res...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/stem-cells-might-heal-damaged-lungs
July 13, 2015
Collectively, such diseases of the airways as emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and cystic fibrosis are the second leading cause of death worldwide. More than 35 million Americans alone suffer from chronic respiratory disease. Weizmann Institute scientists have now proposed a new dir...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/against-triple-negative
July 8, 2015
Prof. Sima Lev is aiming to defeat a particularly treacherous type of breast cancer. Cancer is never good news, but the type of malignant breast tumor known as triple negative is harder to treat than others. It is so called because it lacks the three receptors that in other breas...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/melanoma-mutations-mapped
July 8, 2015
Prof. Yardena Samuels of the Weizmann Institute’s Molecular Cell Biology Department is a part of the Cancer Atlas group that recently produced the melanoma genome map. Hundreds of researchers from Australia, the US, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy, Poland, China and Korea particip...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/getting-center
June 14, 2015
Before an egg – whether mouse or human – can be fertilized, it must get its “internal affairs” in order. That includes moving its nucleus into position in the exact center of the cell. Under a microscope, the nucleus appears to do a little dance, jigging its way from the edge of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/opposite-effects
July 2, 2015
Only the strongest survive. This is not always a good thing: Some very small, but very strong and very deadly survivors – cancer cells – may persevere after chemotherapy. In research that recently appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Prof. Menachem Rubinstein...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/hitchhiker’s-guide-galectins
July 13, 2015
“It all began with a discovery that was made entirely by chance,” says Prof. Yehiel Zick of the Weizmann Institute’s Molecular Cell Biology Department. He is referring to a large research project in his lab that may lead to new ways of developing therapies for osteoporosis,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/winds-viral-change
July 13, 2015
Giant algal blooms periodically appear over hundreds of kilometers of ocean – so large they can be observed from space. Such blooms then disappear rapidly, within a week or two. The single-celled creatures called phytoplankton that make up these blooms die off from...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/weizmann-institute-science-10th-world-research-quality
July 19, 2015
The Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked 10th in an international research ranking. The ranking is conducted by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. The Weizmann Institute is the only one of the top ten research inst...
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