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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/institute’s-women’s-netball-team-nabs-another-victory
July 30, 2018
Just one year ago, the Weizmann Institute of Science women’s netball team placed second in the “Shfela” district competition. For such a young team, this was quite an accomplishment. But Hila Gerafi, the team captain at the time, said they were setting their sights on something...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physicsscience-culture/two-spectacular-celestial-events-grace-our-skies-end-july
July 24, 2018
A blood moon will be visible this Friday night, July 27, 2018, during a stunning, relatively rare, occurrence of a total lunar eclipse, when the Sun, Earth and Moon will be completely aligned, resulting in Earth casting a shadow on the lunar surface. This will be the longest luna...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/combined-approach-offers-hope-lung-cancer-patients-who-become-resistant-drugs
July 25, 2018
New-generation lung cancer drugs have been effective in a large number of patients, but within about a year, the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with physicians, have conducted a study in mice,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/switching-sides-betrayal-anti-cancer-gene
July 25, 2018
It doesn’t often happen that army generals switch sides in the middle of a war, but when cancer’s attack is underway, it may even cause a gene that acts as the body’s master defender to change allegiance. As reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/century-old-model-life’s-origin-gets-significant-substantiation
July 25, 2018
In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in the “primordial soup” which likely existed on Earth four billion years ago. In his view, the complex combination of lifeless molecules, join...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/made-institute-prof-ellen-moons-karlstad-university-sweden
August 6, 2018
Prof. Ellen Moons, a native Belgian and now a physicist at Karlstad University, Sweden, was one of the many former students and colleagues of Prof. David Cahen who came to the recent conference in honor of his 70th birthday. Prof. Moons, who researches optoelectronic molecular ma...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/der-körper-weiß-es-am-besten-ein-natürlicher-heilmechanismus-für-entzündliche
May 30, 2018
Die Behandlung entzündlicher Darmerkrankungen ist extrem schwierig: Gene, Darmmikroben und gestörte Immunfunktionen tragen alle dazu bei. Wissenschaftler des Weizmann Instituts für Wissenschaft schlagen einen Weg vor, um diese Komplexität zu bewältigen. In einer Studie an Mäusen,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-institute-science-ninth-world-research-quality-0
August 12, 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/life-sciences/disrupted-nitrogen-metabolism-might-spell-cancer
August 13, 2018
Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body’s proteins, RNA and DNA, so cancerous tumors are greedy for this element. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with colleagues from the National Cancer Institute and elsewhere, have now shown that in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/algorithm-rivals-experts-could-save-lives
August 13, 2018
Ultrasound equipment has shrunk in both size and price in recent years – so much so that it is standard in hospitals and clinics all over the world. But today’s ultrasound still requires a highly-trained expert to acquire the image and interpret the results, and this has prevente...
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