https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-“helpers”-come-different-types
July 23, 2020
Supporting actors sometimes carry the play – not only in the theater, but in cancer too. In fact, the “help” breast cancer receives from supporting cells called cancer-associated fibroblasts is crucial for its growth. It might even be possible to predict the course of the di...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-campus/weizmann-institute-science-and-schneider-children’s-medical-center-clalit-health
July 30, 2020
Weizmann Institute of Science and Schneider Children’s Medical Center, of the Clalit Health Services, signed a memorandum of understanding today on a collaborative biomedical research initiative. The “Schneider-Weizmann Center for Research on Child and Adult Health” will be joint...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/context-crucial
September 17, 2020
Where do we turn our eyes, spread our fingers or tilt our ears? In classic experiments in the 1960s, Russian psychologist Alfred Yarbus tracked the pupil movements of subjects’ eyes as they looked at photos. He showed that we use these movements to “sample” the world; the context...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/internal-differences-new-method-seeing-cells
August 10, 2020
Invading cells’ private space – prying into their internal functions, decisions and communications – could be a powerful tool that may help researchers develop new immunotherapy treatment for cancer. As reported today in Cell, a research group at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-david-milstein-1
July 26, 2020
Prof. David Milstein has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Chemistry Research Society of India...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-inna-solomonov
July 27, 2020
Dr. Inna Solomonov is the recipient of a Scientific Council Award for Outstanding Staff Scientists...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-avraham-rami-aizenbud
July 27, 2020
Prof. Avraham Rami Aizenbud is the recipient of the Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-efi-efrati
July 27, 2020
Dr. Efi Efrati is the recipient of the Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-schraga-schwartz
July 27, 2020
Dr. Schraga Schwartz is the recipient of a Scientific Council Prize for Life Sciences...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-ziv-shulman
July 27, 2020
Dr. Ziv Shulman is the recipient of the Morris L. Levinson Prize in Biology...