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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/switching-spins-helps-scientists-track-protein-movement
February 10, 2020
Like many other living proteins, Hsp90 is a shape shifter: A reversible chemical bond (ATP hydrolysis, the fuel of life) activates these biomolecules as it alters their physical structure. But even though Hsp90 is one of the most abundant proteins in our cells – and one that is c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/social-life-neuron
February 13, 2020
The last part of the brain to finish developing – sometime during adulthood – is the prefrontal cortex. This may be where, among other things, we learn to understand the needs and emotions of others; its dysfunction is believed to be central in autism spectrum disorder. Yet littl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/predicting-immunotherapy-success
February 18, 2020
One of the frustrations with anti-cancer therapy is that no one drug fits all: Most work well in some people but have little effect in other patients with the same type of cancer. This is as true of the newer immunotherapy treatments as it is of older types of chemotherapy. Weizm...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/electric-outside
May 26, 2020
A material widely used in electronics and other fields turns out to have a split personality. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown that the surface of strontium titanate differs from the bulk of this material in a major, previously unknown way. So signifi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/follow-blood-test-shown-reveal-lung-cancer-risk
February 20, 2020
Several years ago the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Prof. Zvi Livneh and his group proposed a blood test for three markers for DNA repair to be used to calculate a “personalized DNA repair score” indicating the chances of an individual developing lung cancer. In a recent study...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-joel-sussman
February 23, 2020
Prof. Joel Sussman has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Charles University...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/soil-talks-back
May 7, 2020
Plants “talk” to the soil: By secreting various substances from their roots, they affect the composition of soil microbes. A recent study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed that the reverse is also true. In other words, the soil talks back to the pla...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-do-viral-infections-pregnancy-affect-embryos-brain
February 24, 2020
Despite extensive research, scientists are still unsure about the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) – a broad range of conditions characterized by impaired cognition, difficulties with social interaction and communication, and typical repetitive behaviors. Severe materna...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/stamp-collection
March 12, 2020
While growing up in the former Soviet Union, Vladimir Bernshtam started collecting coins and postage stamps reflecting the history of the State of Israel. After immigrating to Israel in 1994 and joining the staff of the Weizmann Institute of Science, he became particularly intere...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/60-years-yeda-setting-new-records
May 20, 2020
“Israeli research has become an export product.” That was a headline quote in a Hebrew newspaper, from January 1960, of a statement made by the first director-general of YEDA, Gen. Eliahu Ben-Bachur. YEDA Research and Development had been founded a few months earlier, the first t...
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