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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacterial-immune-systems-take-stage
January 25, 2018
Until a decade ago, scientists were not aware that bacteria had complex immune systems – ones that could keep up with the pace of evolution in viruses called phages that infect bacteria. That changed with the discovery of what is now the most famous bacterial immune mech...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/visits-interview-prof-drew-pardoll
January 30, 2018
“I’m sure we are currently just scratching the surface of what’s possible to achieve with cancer immunotherapy,” says Prof. Drew Pardoll of Johns Hopkins University. He delivered the keynote address at the symposium, “Cancer Immunotherapy: Successes and Challenges,” organized rec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/immune-tolerance-may-open-new-horizons-bone-marrow-and-organ-transplants
February 5, 2018
Mismatched bone marrow transplants now save the lives of thousands of patients with leukemia and other blood malignancies, but these transplants can be risky. The patients’ immune systems need to be strongly suppressed in preparation for the transplant, leaving them vuln...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/limits-power
February 13, 2018
The year was 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte had just been defeated at Waterloo and Sadi Carnot, a young officer in his army, was being returned to Paris at a quarter of his former pay. Sadi’s transgression was actually that of his father, Lazare Carnot, who had been Napoleon’s interior...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“selfie”-cells-help-reveal-protein-secrets
February 8, 2018
Advanced technologies have lately made such tremendous progress that we can extract genetic material from a single cell and learn practically all we want to know about a person’s genome. But the essential next step – studying the proteins encoded by the genome – often requires ex...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/notorious-piston-and-other-problems
February 15, 2018
Haste makes waste, but we do need to get a move on. In life, as in physics, fast and slow can clash – or they can even out. When light, fast-moving particles are put into a box and mixed with heavy, slow-moving ones, they tend to collide with one another over and over. One of the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“brain-chip”-reveals-how-brain-folds
February 19, 2018
Being born with a “tabula rasa” – a clean slate – in the case of the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we are born. Babies born without these wrinkles – smooth brain syndrome – suffer from severe developmental deficiencies and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/x-spendables-addressing-most-challenging-tissues-magnetic-resonance
February 21, 2018
Magnetic resonance research at the Weizmann Institute of Science has been at the forefront of the field for decades. Four new magnetic resonance scanners, all characterized by the strongest magnetic fields commercially available, are in various stage of installation and start-up...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-rotem-sorek
February 22, 2018
Prof. Rotem Sorek elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-asher-friesem-0
February 22, 2018
Prof. Asher Friesem recipient of the Emmett N. Leith Medal from the Optical Society (OSA)....
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