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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/first-impressions-go-long-way-immune-system
July 22, 2019
First impressions are important – they can set the stage for the entire course of a relationship. The same is true for the impressions the cells of our immune system form when they first meet a new bacterium. Using this insight, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have deve...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-26
July 18, 2019
Prof. Ada Yonath is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Jacobs University Germany....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-avigdor-scherz-0
July 18, 2019
Prof. Avigdor Scherz together with the Tookad™ Early Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Team - recipients of the Inaugural Tayyaba Hasan IMPACT Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yuval-gefen-4
July 21, 2019
Prof. Yuval Gefen is the recipient of the Helmholtz International Fellow Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-david-milstein-14
July 28, 2019
Prof. David Milstein is the recipient of the Weizmann-Moles Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mistaken-not-always-wrong-protein-errors-are-under-control
August 1, 2019
Getting a fix on when and where mistakes occur in the cellular manufacture of proteins is so challenging that a researcher in the United States once declared he would take out to lunch for an entire year anyone who’d manage to pull it off. Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, head of the Molecu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/next-gen-israeli-satellite-seek-out-cosmic-explosions-and-black-holes
August 12, 2019
Weighing in at just about 160 kg, a new type of a scientific satellite is planned to be built in Israel over the next four years, with a projected launch date of 2023. The satellite, known as ULTRASAT, will carry a telescope designed to observe the Universe as it has not been see...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sneaky-rna-tag-rendered-visible
August 5, 2019
The code name for a chemical tag at the center of a recent Weizmann Institute of Science study sounds a bit like the name of the British Foreign Service, but its doings are much more likely to be made public in the near future. In fact, bringing to light the precise whereabouts o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/survival-fewest
August 8, 2019
Marine microorganisms called phytoplankton undergo some of the most extreme population swings on the planet – forming huge blooms that cover kilometers, then crashing to barely detectable levels within weeks. In the process, they provide some 50% of the planet’s oxygen; they make...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/firework-memories
August 15, 2019
Extraterrestrial scientists landing in a football stadium would be struck by the sight of the crowd suddenly standing up and shouting in unison. In a similar manner, since the nineties, researchers have observed a special pattern of neuronal activity in rodents: tens of thousands...
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