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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/choosing-right-weapons-against-pathogens
November 6, 2017
Our immune system not only fights pathogens when they first make us sick – it continuously prepares for future attacks. Defenders such as antibodies are honed by competition to become better and better at destroying the pathogen. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/algae-open-“message-bottle”-their-own-risk
November 9, 2017
Surely some of the most dramatic events on Earth are the giant blooms of single-celled phytoplankton that spread over thousands of kilometers of ocean within a week or two and then disappear just as rapidly. Thanks to the work of Prof. Assaf Vardi of the Weizmann Institute of Sci...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/freedom-and-order-our-inner-world
November 16, 2017
Try to list the names of Hollywood stars. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere might spring to mind. But other names – say Albert Einstein or the name of your first-grade teacher – won’t come up. We do this so easily that our ability to recall information that fits into a particular ca...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-victor-armand-malka-2
November 6, 2017
Prof. Victor Armand Malka has been elected as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-eran-bouchbinder
November 9, 2017
Prof. Eran Bouchbinder has been elected as the chair of the Israel Young Academy at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/track-how-storms-will-veer-warmer-world
November 13, 2017
Under global climate change, the Earth’s climatic zones will shift toward the poles. This is not just a future prediction; it is a trend that has already been observed in the past decades. The dry, semi-arid regions are expanding into higher latitudes, and temperate, rainy region...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-18
November 13, 2017
Prof. Ada Yonath has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) ....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-19
November 13, 2017
Prof. Ada Yonath has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/let’s-debate-science
November 18, 2017
A new debate club – the first of its kind at the Weizmann Institute – has been established as part of the Feinberg Graduate School’s Career Development program, thanks to the initiative of PhD student Chen Attias of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department, in join...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/revising-genetic-message-after-it-sent
November 20, 2017
DNA is sometimes likened to instructions in a manual but, unlike the usual manual, it contains information that can change over time. Chemical tags can attach themselves to the DNA at millions of positions, modifying the genetic instructions. These tags have been extensively stud...
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