https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/historic-partnership-between-weizmann-institute-science-and-institut-curie
March 21, 2019
On March 22, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and Institut Curie in Paris, France, two major world-class research institutes, signed an historic partnership that will allow their teams to work closely together to improve knowledge in the field of life science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-adi-kimchi-4
March 24, 2019
Prof. Adi Kimchi has been awarded the Israel Prize in Life Sciences....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/making-room-change-stem-cell-fate-depends-it
March 25, 2019
What makes an embryonic stem cell adopt a particular fate – differentiating down the path to a specific type? How can this process be halted or reversed? Answers to these questions hold great promise for the future of medicine. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science hav...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/same-microbe-different-effect
March 27, 2019
Our gut microbiome – the complement of bacteria we carry around in our intestines – has been linked to everything from obesity and diabetes to heart disease and even neurological disorders and cancer. In recent years, researchers have been sorting through the multiple bacterial s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yadin-dudai-9
March 28, 2019
Prof. Yadin Dudai has been elected next the Head of the Natural Sciences Section of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/search-first-enzymes
April 1, 2019
Even the lowliest bacterium houses a complement of sophisticated enzymes – proteins that carry out the basic tasks of life. We know that enzyme complexity, with numerous active sites working together to complete specific tasks, has ancient origins. How did this complexity arise?...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cest-la-vie-high-powered-magnets-improve-early-detection-cancer-rats
April 17, 2019
Many of the biological compounds in the brain and body are present in such low concentrations, they cannot be “seen” by magnetic resonance imaging, MRI. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, working in collaboration with scientists from the National High Magnetic Fiel...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/host-and-virus-face-over-rna-modification
April 11, 2019
Viruses can be ill-mannered guests, freely helping themselves to the host cells’ machinery and using it to make more viruses. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers went looking for a particular event that was thought to improve the viruses’ abilities to infect cells; they fou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-dan-yakir-2
April 2, 2019
Prof. Dan Yakir has been chosen to receive the Israel Prize in Earth Sciences....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/new-clinical-study-being-launched-weizmann-institute-science
April 8, 2019
The project, led by Prof. Eran Segal and his team of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Molecular Cell Biology Departments, aims to use state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies in order to generate personalized predictions for disease risk factors. The...