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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/great-chemical-escape
September 11, 2017
Hidden bombs that must be defused and locks with unique keys. That is the premise of a wildly successful “chemical escape room.” The popular escape rooms are a form of entertainment in which a group of people are locked in a room together and they must solve a series of puzz...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-bacteria-hinder-chemotherapy
September 20, 2017
To the reasons that chemotherapy sometimes does not work, we can now add one more: bacteria. In a study published today in Science, researchers describe findings that certain bacteria can be found inside human pancreatic tumors. The findings further showed that some of these...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/altitude-training-cancer-fighting-cells
September 18, 2017
Mountain climbers and endurance athletes are not the only ones to benefit from altitude training – that is, learning to perform well under low-oxygen conditions. It turns out that cancer-fighting cells of the immune system can also improve their performance through a cellular ver...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genomic-recycling-ancestral-genes-take-new-roles
September 18, 2017
One often hears about the multitude of genes we have in common with chimps, birds or other living creatures, but such comparisons are sometimes misleading. The shared percentage usually refers only to genes that encode instructions for making proteins – while overlooking regulato...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/colder-and-colder
September 18, 2017
When investigating atoms, scientists face a challenge: At room temperature, individual atoms in a gas have kinetic energy, and fly around at large velocities. Temperature is, in essence, the relative movement between atoms; thus the goal of getting the atoms to have small re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/spare-parts-might-“jump-start”-protein-design
September 26, 2017
The idea of proteins that can be designed on computers for specific functions has been a cutting-edge concept that has stubbornly remained “in the future.” New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science may bring that future a bit closer. By going back to nature’s drawing boar...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“big-eater”-cells’-new-role-–-preventing-obesity
September 28, 2017
In the 1880s, Russian zoologist EIie Metchnikoff invented the term macrophage – literally, “big eater” – for a certain type of white blood cell, due to the way it devours and digests cellular debris and foreign particles as part of the body’s immune defense. Now Prof. Steffen Jun...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-irit-sagi-1
October 1, 2017
Prof. Irit Sagi has been awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais for Biochemistry...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-daniel-hanoch-wagner-1
August 29, 2017
Prof. Daniel Hanoch Wagner has been awarded the American Society for Composites/DEStech Prize...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/crashing-neutron-stars-observed-first-time
October 16, 2017
An international research team, including physicists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, has for the first time succeeded in observing a merger of two colliding neutron stars. The merger was simultaneously picked up by three detectors built for this purpose: the two belonging...
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