https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/having-their-fortress-and-leaving-it-too
August 18, 2020
How do some bacteria build impregnable fortresses large enough to shelter whole “cities” and simultaneously migrate to distant organs or to the opposite side of a lab dish? The answer, according to a new study led by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, is that the very glu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-jakub-abramson
June 16, 2020
Prof. Jakub Abramson has been elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-itay-halevy
June 16, 2020
Prof. Itay Halevy has been elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-dan-tawfik
June 16, 2020
Prof. Dan Tawfik is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-reshef-tenne
June 16, 2020
Prof. Reshef Tenne is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Exact Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-ido-amit
June 16, 2020
Prof. Ido Amit is the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-asaph-aharoni
June 16, 2020
Prof. Asaph Aharoni is the recipient of an American Society of Plant Biology 2020 Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-sidney-cohen
June 16, 2020
Dr. Sidney Cohen has been elected as a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/observation-excess-events-xenon1t-dark-matter-experiment
June 19, 2020
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events. The scientists do not claim to have found dark matter; rather, they have observed an unexpect...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/which-came-first
June 22, 2020
What did the very first proteins look like – those that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago? Prof. Dan Tawfik of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Prof. Norman Metanis of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have reconstructed protein sequences that may well resemble...