https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-cells-seen-traveling-tethered-groups
May 10, 2018
Invasive cancer cells – the ones that may lead to deadly metastasis – are said to be divided into two types: those that venture out, across vessel walls, into the bloodstream alone; and those that travel in groups. Until now, it was thought that the lone travelers were the most d...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/obesity-infection-connection
May 14, 2018
Obesity and diabetes continue to top the charts of current health threats. More than two billion people are affected worldwide, and more than three million deaths each year are linked to complications associated with obesity. The detrimental effects of obesity and diabetes are of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-haim-beidenkopf-1
May 14, 2018
Dr. Haim Beidenkopf has been elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-rotem-sorek-0
May 15, 2018
Prof. Rotem Sorek has been elected as a member of EMBO....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/please-ignore-message-link-between-pregnancy-and-anorexia
May 16, 2018
The seeds of adolescence are planted even before birth – in pregnancy – and the messages passed from the mother to her unborn child can have an enormous influence on their later life. What, exactly are these messages and how are they passed on? New research at the Weizmann Instit...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/storming-fortress-cracking-concrete-surrounding-bacterial-biofilms
May 21, 2018
Breaking through concrete walls may not sound like a therapeutic approach, but researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggest that’s just what might help overcome bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In a new study in the journal npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, the resear...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/new-biomass-census-trees-rule-planet
May 22, 2018
What are the most abundant animals on Earth? How do plants stack up against fungi, animals or bacteria? How does the mass of life in the oceans compare to that on land? A new type of global census based on the total biomass of different life forms on Earth suggests that much of w...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/body-knows-best-natural-healing-mechanism-inflammatory-bowel-disease
May 30, 2018
Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel is extremely challenging because their causes are complex: Genes, gut microbes and disrupted immune function are but some of the contributing factors. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are proposing a way around this complexity...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-itay-halevy-0
May 27, 2018
Dr. Itay Halevy is the recipient of a Scientific Council Prize for Chemistry....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-sarel-fleishman
May 27, 2018
Dr. Sarel Fleishman is the recipient of a Morris L. Levinson Prize in Biology awarded by the Scientific Council....