https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-israel-pecht-7
October 16, 2017
Prof. Israel Pecht has been elected as an Honorary Member of the FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Executive Committee...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/go-your-own-way-group-depends-it
October 19, 2017
Ever wonder how certain memes or videos go viral on social networks? This is an example of collective behavior. Recent research at the Weizmann Institute of Science adds a new twist to the connection between individual and collective behavior – showing that groups might function...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yuval-oreg-0
October 22, 2017
Prof. Yuval Oreg has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-enzymes-behave-“-home”-cell
October 24, 2017
Some 100 years after the discovery of enzymes, most research on their activities still gets conducted in “test tubes” of various sorts. How well do these test-tube models explain what happens inside living cells? Prof Gideon Schreiber and his group in the Biomolecular Sciences D...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/all-glitters-nanoscale
October 30, 2017
Nature supplies us with dramatic lessons on the importance of structure. Alternate structural versions of chemical elements, called allotropes, are sometimes so disparate that it is hard to believe they have the same composition. The allotropes diamonds and graphite, for example,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-noam-stern-ginossar
October 29, 2017
Dr. Noam Stern-Ginossar has been elected as an EMBO Young Investigator....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-schraga-schwartz
October 29, 2017
Dr. Schraga Schwartz has been elected as an EMBO Young Investigator....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/map-life-human-cell-atlas-project
October 30, 2017
A great international effort has just been launched to map and characterize every single cell in the human body, aiming to understand the precise cellular and molecular components of life. Among the 38 teams to be joining the Human Cell Atlas project is one from the Weizmann...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-rachel-mamlok-naaman-0
October 30, 2017
Dr. Rachel Mamlok-Naaman has been selected as a recipient of the ACS-CEI (American Chemical Society-Committee on Environmental Improvement) Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/thinking-outside-skeleton
November 2, 2017
How do bones know when they have reached their “destination” – that is, how do they decide they are at the right length and the right strength? Do they have a written map or internal GPS navigation system, or do they have to ask the “locals” for directions? Two new studies at the...