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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-michal-schwartz-7
November 22, 2017
Prof. Michal Schwartz is the recipient of the iNNOVEX2018 Global Leader of Innovation Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/decade-advancing-women-science
November 22, 2017
It was the summer of 2012, and Dr. Efrat Shema was facing a difficult decision. After completing her PhD under the guidance of Prof. Moshe Oren in the Weizmann Institute of Science, she was accepted to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Medicine. On the one hand,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/autism-and-smell-fear
November 27, 2017
Autism typically involves the inability to read social cues. We most often associate this with visual difficulty in interpreting facial expression, but new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that the sense of smell may also play a central role in autism. As re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/protein-puts-staphylococcus-ribosomes-sleep
December 21, 2017
Ribosomes – the protein production machinery of the cell – are a major battleground in the war to defeat harmful bacteria. Many useful antibiotics target the bacteria’s ribosomes mainly by binding to primary functional sites; antibiotic-resistant bacteria invent various means of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/mirror-images
December 4, 2017
Scallops see with up to 200 tiny eyes, which ring their bodies. But this is not the most unusual feature of their visual system: Instead of focusing light through a lens, scallop eyes possess a mirror at the back of the eye to reflect light onto two different retinas. How do thes...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/uncovering-varied-pathways-agriculture
December 5, 2017
Around 15,000 years ago, the Natufian culture appeared in what is today’s Middle East. This culture, which straddled the border between nomadic and settled lifestyles, had diverse, complex origins – much more than researchers have assumed. This finding arises from new research by...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yair-reisner-2
December 6, 2017
Prof. Yair Reisner is the recipient of the DKMS Mechtild Harf Science Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-binghai-yan
December 6, 2017
Dr. Binghai Yan has been awarded the IPS Prize for Young Scientist by the Israel Physical Society....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-malaria-tricks-immune-system
December 7, 2017
Global efforts to eradicate malaria are crucially dependent on scientists’ ability to outsmart the malaria parasite. And Plasmodium falciparum is notoriously clever: It is quick to develop resistance against medications and has such a complex life cycle that blocking it effective...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/making-larvae-count
December 13, 2017
Embargoed until 16:00 London time / 11:00 US Eastern standard time/ 18:00 Jerusalem time Almost all the wildly varied, colorful fish that populate coral reefs start life as tiny, colorless, tadpole-like larvae. Telling one from the other is nearly impossible – even for exp...
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