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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/food-waste-biggest-loss-could-be-what-you-choose-put-your-mouth
March 21, 2018
Embargoed until Monday, March 26, 15:00 pm EST, 22:00 Jerusalem time About a third of the food produced for human consumption is estimated to be lost or wasted globally. But the biggest waste, which is not even included in this estimate, may be through dietary choices tha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-itamar-procaccia-12
March 22, 2018
Prof. Itamar Procaccia has been invited to present the Colloquium Ehrenfestii in Leiden....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-gad-asher
April 8, 2018
Prof. Gad Asher has been awarded the Lindner Prize by the Israel Endocrine Society (IES)....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sharing-information-through-internet-cells
April 26, 2018
Cells have numerous means of communication, but one discovered in recent years had researchers surprised: Cells can extend small tubular structures – a sort of nanotube – between their membranes to enable the direct transfer of material from one to the other. A network of cells,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“lord-rings”-protein-jump-starts-nerve-repair
April 16, 2018
When the body needs to repair nerve injury, the machinery is already in place. Hidden within nerve cells is a “one-ring-to-rule-them-all” kind of trigger: a molecular machine that can ramp up the synthesis of the necessary proteins on demand, right at the injured spot. As reporte...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/smallest-nose-glows
April 23, 2018
The smallest nose yet could consist of a single molecule. Prof. David (Didi) Margulies and his group at the Weizmann Institute of Science are demonstrating nano-sized artificial noses that work something like real noses − that is, they can sense a number of different molecules in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/taming-curse-high-dimensionality
May 3, 2018
When mathematicians talk about spatial dimensions, they usually mean the number of coordinates needed to describe a point or sample in that space. The universe as we know it has three dimensions. But higher-dimensional spaces are needed to describe, for example, all the possible...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rulebook-living-cells
April 12, 2018
On top of the basic code of life – the genes that encode all of the proteins in our bodies – are many other layers of code that control everything from amounts to location to the timing of protein production. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Eran Segal and his group re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-nir-london
April 10, 2018
Dr. Nir London is the recipient of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-hundred-teens-ten-days-and-robot-investigating-how-superbugs-evolve
April 30, 2018
One of the biggest challenges to future medicine is the rise of superbugs – bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. This problem is essentially one of evolution, and a group of high-school students recently had the opportunity to use some of the most advanced techniq...
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