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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yinon-rudich-0
February 8, 2016
Prof. Yinon Rudich Appointed head of the Earth and Planetary sciences department...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/bruno-prize-prof-eran-segal
February 8, 2016
Prof. Eran Segal, Awarded a Bruno Prize by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/rappaport-prize-dr-ido-ami
February 8, 2016
Dr. Ido Amit, Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for a Young Scientist...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/coral-chip-cracks-coral-mysteries
March 16, 2016
We know that human-induced environmental changes are responsible for coral bleaching, disease, and infertility. Loss of the world’s stony coral reefs – up to 30% in the next 30 years, according to some estimates – will mean loss of their services, including sequestering some...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/temporary-disconnects-shed-light-long-term-brain-dysfunction
March 16, 2016
Will we ever be able to understand the cacophonous chatter taking place between the 80 million neurons in our brains? Dr. Ofer Yizhar and his group in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Neurobiology Department have taken a large step in this direction with a new research method...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-eat
March 16, 2016
When one eats may be as important as what one eats. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Germany, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that the cells’ power plants – the mitochondria – are highly regul...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/one-patent-three-drugs
March 16, 2016
A protocol that arose from Weizmann Institute of Science research has led to US Food and Drug Administration approval of a new biological drug for the treatment of a certain form of lung cancer. This is the third cancer drug to be developed on the basis of studies conducted by th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/missing-mitch
March 21, 2016
Many people would love to eat to their heart’s content and stay slim. That’s just what happened to genetically engineered mice in a new Weizmann Institute study: They stayed impressively lean despite eating more than usual and consuming a great deal of high-fat food. Not only tha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-build-bubble-protein
March 28, 2016
“The membrane surrounding a cell is very thin,” says Dr. Sarel Fleishman. “You can think of it as a soap bubble: If you try to isolate it, it will pop.” Yet this thin membrane is what separates the inside of every living cell from the outside. A sort of barrier with gates, the me...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/out-old
April 11, 2016
Our body’s cells, like their owners, get old; but as we advance in years, our aging cells, paradoxically, can become resistant to death. Such cells stop dividing, but they linger on and become a nuisance, cluttering up tissues and organs and promoting disease. Weizmann Institute...
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