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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cells-inside-cells-bacteria-live-cancer-cells
May 28, 2020
Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria. That conclusion arises from a rigorous study of over 1,000 tumor samples of different human cancers. The study, headed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, found bacteria living inside the cells of all the cancer types –...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/under-pressure-cell
May 25, 2020
Falling apart under pressure is generally considered undesirable, but for a cellular organelle called the Golgi apparatus, such a breakdown is all part of the plan. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a surprising pool of protein-degrading “machinery”...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/rnas-take-plunge
June 24, 2020
“We are often charged with not being sensitive enough,” says Prof. Lucio Frydman of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Chemical and Biological Physics Department. Frydman is not referring to emotional detachment but rather to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a tool used to eluc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences-made-institute/here-come-bacteria
May 24, 2020
Dr. Nitai Steinberg completed his doctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Molecular Genetics Department, and continued his studies at the University of Toronto where he pursued a special Master’s program in Biomedical Communications, with an emphasis on Bioc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fewer-infections-more-allergies-finding-connection
June 3, 2020
The current surge of allergies in the Western world might be the price we pay for being exposed to fewer infections. This is the so-called “hygiene hypothesis”: Exposure to infectious organisms somehow offers protection against allergies, so people living in a relatively sterile...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/ticking-extreme-altitudes
June 2, 2020
La Rinconada, Peru, the highest town in the world, is also one of the toughest places in the world. Apart from squalid living conditions and environmental pollution, residents of this gold-mining settlement in the Andes mountain range – most of them poor miners hoping to strike i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/mary-mary-quite-contrary-how-does-your-crystal-grow
June 8, 2020
Imagine trying to build a Colosseum-type edifice – including arches, vaults and various protrusions – while abiding by two strict rules: Only one type of brick may be used, and these bricks are required to be placed precisely, one against another, in a symmetrical arrangemen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-gilad-perez
May 31, 2020
Prof. Gilad Perez is the recipient of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/cracking-non-classical-crystal-formation
June 16, 2020
When we say that something is “crystal-clear,” we mean that it couldn’t possibly be clearer, but much about crystals themselves is not clear at all. Scientists are for the most part still unable to predict what kind of crystal a given molecule can produce, if at all; even the so-...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-heat-–-turn-ac4c
July 15, 2020
Talk about embracing hardship: A single-celled archaea thrives amidst superheated gases spewed from openings in Earth’s crust. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with scientists from the United States, have discovered a mechanism used by this organ...
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