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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/weizmann-institute-science-seventh-top-erc-grants
June 22, 2020
The Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked seventh in Europe – and first in Israel – for the total number of research grants obtained from the European Research Council (ERC), for the years 2007-2019. In fact, if the small size of the Weizmann Institute of Science were taken int...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/magnetic-history-ice
June 28, 2020
The history of our planet has been written, among other things, in the periodic reversal of its magnetic poles. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science propose a new means of reading this historic record: in ice. Their findings, which were recently reported in Earth and P...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cant-see-fungi-trees-forests-hidden-helpers
June 30, 2020
A secret alliance, concealed deep beneath the forest floor, has recently been unearthed by Weizmann Institute scientists. Dr. Tamir Klein and PhD student Ido Rog of the Plant and Environmental Sciences Department have discovered intricate networks of fungi connecting the roots of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/evolution-within
July 9, 2020
Evolution is continual and relentless in shaping all life forms. In his most famous work, Charles Darwin proposed that this amazing process is governed by a simple rule: selection of sufficiently fit individuals, spreading new traits by passing them on to offspring. But some of t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/not-just-infection-pregnant-women’s-immune-response-virus-may-affect-fetal-brain-cells
July 30, 2020
When a pregnant woman is infected with a virus, her immune system’s response to the infection may harm her baby’s brain – even if the fetus is not infected with the virus itself. This finding emerges from a study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science. It's been...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/what-fish-heart-knows
July 7, 2020
When the heart recovers from injury, the blood flowing through its vessels is essential. But lymph – the colorless fluid that circulates in a parallel network – and the lymphatic vessels in which it moves are just as crucial, according to researchers at the Weizmann Institute of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/no-rest-beta-cells
August 18, 2020
With hundreds of millions of diabetics around the world and no cure for the disease, researchers have taken numerous tacks to find better treatments. One promising approach that may be used in the future is cell reprogramming – getting some of the cells neighboring the dysfunctio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/new-light-solid-state
August 6, 2020
Speed is the name of the game in the lab of Prof. Nirit Dudovich in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Physics of Complex Systems Department. Flashes of laser light so rapid they are measured in mere attoseconds (that is, a few billionths of a billionth of a second), can be used...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/shining-light-laser-based-therapy
August 24, 2020
Vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy (VTP) with TOOKAD®, a therapeutic platform for solid cancers developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, has already gained approval in Europe, Israel and Mexico for the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer and is under examination b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-yardena-samuels-0
July 8, 2020
Prof. Yardena Samuels has been elected as a member of EMBO....
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