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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-shimon-vega
October 9, 2018
Prof. Shimon Vega has been awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/need-noise-how-patterns-arise-nature
October 18, 2018
How do the fingers and vertebrae in a growing embryo develop, or the stripes on a zebra’s hide arrange themselves? For over half a century, developmental scientists have used a model first created by Alan Turing that explains how complex biological patterns can emerge based on ju...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bat-brains-forgo-rhythm-when-encoding-space
October 14, 2018
Since they were discovered in the 1920s, periodic oscillations in the brain’s electrical activity have been thought to be essential for encoding the experience of physical space, among other things. But new research by a group in the Weizmann Institute of Science, which was recen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-israel-pecht-8
October 14, 2018
Prof. Israel Pecht has been elected as an Honorary Member of the Polish Biochemical Society....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-michal-schwartz-9
October 15, 2018
Prof. Michal Schwartz has been elected as the excellent mentor of the Israel Society for Neuroscience....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/20m-d-dan-and-betty-kahn-foundation-gift-expands-collaboration-weizmann-institute-science-university
October 15, 2018
Consider a future in which robots work alongside humans to search for disaster survivors and seniors monitor their response to bacterial infections in real time. A $20 million gift from the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation of Michigan will expand collaboration among researcher...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/passing-plankton-reach-clouds
October 25, 2018
When microscopic plankton in the oceans catch a virus, the forecast might be rain. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science finds that as plankton die off from viral infection, some of the bits and pieces they leave behind are released into the atmosphere, where they can...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cellular-trash-cans-reveal-roles-proteins-disease
October 22, 2018
If we really want to know how our body’s cells work – or don’t work, in the case of disease – we might need to look beyond their genes and even beyond the proteins they are made of. We may need to start going through the cellular “trash.” The group of Dr. Yifat Merbl of the Weizm...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/liver-cells-give-away-their-“friends”-locations
October 29, 2018
“Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are” turns out to be a good guideline for cell research. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have managed to map out different subtypes of tiny liver cells by pairing them up with their “buddies” – adjacent lar...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/protein-planner
November 1, 2018
Millions of times a second, in our bodies and in every living organism, molecules are being cut up or stuck together, thanks to enzymes. Enzymes are proteins equipped for various tasks, but natural ones may not always be as efficient as we would like. For example, the enzymes tha...
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