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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lowering-handbrakes-stem-cell-production
January 3, 2019
What has been holding back the use of “reprogrammed” stem cells in research and medicine? As reported in two new papers published in Cell Stem Cell, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified and removed a “handbrake” that hinders this process. The research...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/standing-heat
January 10, 2019
A dry seasonal heat wave, known as a hamsin in Israel, usually sends residents indoors to the air conditioning. But a group of researchers from Austria, Germany and Italy made a special trip to Israel’s Negev desert early last summer during the height of a hamsin. The semi-arid p...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rna-“specialists”-activate-nerve-regeneration
January 24, 2019
Genes that encode proteins are usually active in so many tissues and in so many different situations that manipulating them for therapeutic purposes can be tricky. Blocking or enhancing their activity may help cure disease in one organ while causing unwanted side effects in other...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-victor-armand-malka-3
January 10, 2019
Prof. Victor Armand Malka has been awarded the Alfven Prize from European Physical Society (EPS) (Jointly with Prof. Toshiki Tajima)....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-ofer-yizhar-0
January 10, 2019
Dr. Ofer Yizhar has been awarded the Sir Bernard Katz Prize from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/lowering-light-limit
January 28, 2019
Ever since Ernst Abbe set a lower limit to the size of things that can be seen under a microscope, people have been looking for ways to surpass that limit. While electron microscopes and several new types of microscopy have since broken through the limit, a method developed by ph...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/no-rest-weary-immune-cells
January 14, 2019
Why do some cancer patients respond well to immunotherapy, while others do not? Certain immune cells are known to attack cancer cells and destroy them, while other, nearly identical immune cells, appear to tolerate the presence of cancer. Understanding the differences between the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/saturn’s-atmosphere-proves-deep-its-rings-young
January 17, 2019
Grand Finale was the official name of Cassini’s last act: a risky orbit between the rings and the planet’s atmosphere in a daring attempt to probe the planet from up close, right before the craft went up in flames. Prof. Yohai Kaspi and Dr. Eli Galanti of the Weizmann Institute’s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-david-cahen-4
January 20, 2019
Prof. David Cahen has been elected as the Prof. Ramakrishna Rao Visiting Chair position by the Indian Institute of Science....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-samuel-safran-0
January 20, 2019
Prof. Samuel Safran has been selected to serve as the first editor-in-chief of The Biophysicist, a new journal of the Biophysical Society...
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