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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/game-clones-team-huddles-t-cells
June 21, 2018
When teams huddle before a game, players are assigned their roles on the field or court. A recent study at the Weizmann Institute of Science and University College London has now revealed what happens when certain immune cells huddle before going out into the body to direct an at...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nanocrystals-give-mri-new-shine
June 28, 2018
Dr. Amnon Bar-Shir says the idea came to him from a picture in a book: a photo of a purple crystal known as fluorite (calcium fluoride). Bar-Shir is a magnetic resonance imaging – MRI – investigator in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Organic Chemistry Department. The roc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/lowering-barrier-electrons-seen-tunneling-through-proteins
August 2, 2018
The quantum phenomenon known as tunneling is generally associated with highly controlled physics experiments, nuclear fusion in stars or futuristic setups for quantum computing. But the same phenomenon may also be taking place in proteins present in our bodies. New research at th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-michal-leskes
June 28, 2018
Dr. Michal Leskes is the recipient of the ACS Energy and Fuels Division Glenn Best Paper Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genetic-test-aging
July 10, 2018
A number of weeks ago, I showed up to an almost vacant office in the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding a copy of my latest blood tests. I’m participating in a study called WizeAging, answering a call that has gone out for volunteers aged 50 and older. After filling out the u...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-21
July 1, 2018
Prof. Ada Yonath is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Macau, China....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/silver-eyes-are-triple-treat
July 16, 2018
Darwin confessed to being stumped by the evolution of such a precision instrument as the eye. But we know today that evolution has produced not just our eyes, but countless variations, many rivaling our own for sophistication. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science dem...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-edriss-s-titi-10
July 8, 2018
Prof. Edriss S. Titi has been elected as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-institute-science-ninth-world-research-quality
July 8, 2018
The Weizmann Institute of Science has been placed ninth in a ranking of research quality. This is the second time that the Institute has ranked in the top ten best research institutes in the world. (In the previous ranking, in 2015, the institute placed tenth.) The placement com...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/hot-dense-and-fast
July 19, 2018
Bus drivers will tell you that crowds trying to push through the door all at once delay the schedule much more than orderly, one-at-a-time boarding. Electrons are thought to flow through conducting materials like polite bus passengers – best when waiting their turn. But...
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