https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/comprehending-cancer-ecosystems-–-one-cell-time
January 15, 2018
We know each cancer is a collection of different cells, but we tend to treat them as if they were all the same, says Dr. Itay Tirosh, who joined the Weizmann Institute of Science in August. As a result, drugs that kill most of the tumor often leave a few of its cells alive, an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yinon-rudich-2
January 15, 2018
Prof. Yinon Rudich has been admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRS)....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-gershom-jan-martin-2
January 15, 2018
Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin has been awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Prize for Excellence....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-milko-van-der-boom
January 15, 2018
Prof. Milko Van Der Boom has been awarded the Israel Chemical Society (ICS)-Adama Prize for Technological Innovation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-david-margulies
January 15, 2018
Prof. David Margulies is the recipient of a MSMLG Czarnik Emerging Investigator Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/liberty-program
January 18, 2018
What caused a Weizmann Institute of Science professor and a researcher at HIT (Holon Institute of Technology) to produce an online programming course in English? Programs are present in every part of our lives, says HITs Dr. Michal Gordon, who gives the course together with th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/dry-fruitful-semi-arid-forests-could-offset-climate-change
January 29, 2018
We plant forests today because they are carbon sinks they can offset rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. But not all forests are equal when it comes to cooling the planet, and it has not always been clear where new forests can do the most good in the shortest amou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yuval-gefen-2
January 22, 2018
Prof. Yuval Gefen has been appointed to a Leverhulme Trust Aston University Visiting Professorship....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-michal-sharon-1
January 23, 2018
Prof. Michal Sharon is the recipient of the Mass Spectrometry in the Life Sciences Award by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Massenspektrometrie (DGMS)....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/triton-“odd-moon-out”
January 23, 2018
Neptune has one of the most peculiar assortments of moons in our solar system, and Triton is largely to blame. Triton is unusually massive compared to the other Neptunian satellites; but this is not the only characteristic that makes it an outlier. Not only does Triton orbit much...