https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-approach-tailoring-cancer-therapy-tapping-signaling-activities-cancer-cells
July 16, 2020
Choosing the right drug for each cancer patient is key to successful treatment, but currently physicians have few reliable pointers to guide them in designing treatment protocols. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have now dev...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/-and-events/being-here
July 27, 2020
Grace Mayuni and Talitha Kotzé, MSc students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, came to the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Immunology Department in January, 2020, for a three-month stay as visiting students. But with the global corona...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/they-come-physics
July 14, 2020
Around 1,250 high school students come twice a week to the Arnon Campus of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Center, where they spend four hours immersing themselves in physics. The students, who come from the cities of Rehovot and Ness Tziona to the campus tucked in one cor...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/potential-heart-repair-protein-advances-new-stage
September 1, 2020
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world, surpassing all cancers combined. One of the major difficulties in coming up with new therapies lies in translating basic research findings, typically obtained with mice, into a treatment that works in humans. This gap...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-roads-diverged-cell
July 28, 2020
The way in which RNA is exported from the cell nucleus – a process that is crucial for all cellular life – was mostly thought to be uniform and fast. But in a new study, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown that the cell uses at least two different mechanis...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/artificial-cells-produce-parts-viruses-safe-studies
July 20, 2020
Scientists searching for better diagnostic tests, drugs or vaccines against a virus must all begin by deciphering the structure of that virus. And when the virus in question is highly pathogenic, investigating, testing or developing these can be quite dangerous. Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/changing-direction
August 18, 2020
Accurately detecting motion – whether that of a snake slithering though grass or a bike courier racing through a crosswalk – is vital to our survival. Yet, as the developers of autonomous vehicles have learned, identifying the trajectory of movement through space is one of the mo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/using-wrench-hammer-nails
September 8, 2020
Soap-like plant compounds called saponins are used in the manufacture of drugs and vaccines, and they are exploited in the food industry, for example, to produce a low-calorie sweetener that’s a thousand times sweeter than table sugar. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Sci...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/folded-not-insolvent
August 26, 2020
Proteins are dynamic entities – given to internal motion, as well as constantly exchanging loosely bound hydrogen atoms with surrounding water. Conventional wisdom would state that these atomic exchanges occur more readily when proteins are unfolded, since folding into compact, t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-“sixth-sense”-shapes-skeleton
September 3, 2020
A distorted skeleton interferes with movement, but more surprisingly, the reverse is also true: Distortions in the way we move can cause problems with skeletal development in the first place. A new study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that mutations i...