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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-dan-oron-0
August 17, 2020
Prof. Dan Oron is the recipient of the Andre Deloro Prize for Scientific Research for outstanding scientists...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/weizmann-institute-science-offering-emergency-fellowships-israeli-postdocs-affected-covid-19
August 20, 2020
The Weizmann Institute of Science has initiated an emergency program to award grants to postdoctoral fellows whose research has been curtailed by restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The plan is to assist those who have completed doctorates in Israel and now must...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-campus/kestrel-diaries
August 25, 2020
1 An empty flower pot with a little soil in the bottom, sitting on a window ledge on the third floor of the Veterinary Services Department of the Institute. Two kestrels looked it over, decided it was the perfect spot to start a family. Within a few days there was an egg...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/dropping-how-street-corner-organelles-come-together
September 15, 2020
In the division of labor inside our cells, there are the “offices” – well-defined organelles walled in membranes – and “street corners,” in which proteins come together in wall-less “droplets” to carry out basic cellular functions. These droplets have been the focus of great inte...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/opening-cancer-attack
August 31, 2020
Immunotherapy – getting a patient’s own immune system to attack cancer – is a promising treatment for numerous types of cancer, but in practice, these new therapies are given only to a small number cancer patients who are thought to qualify and of those, the treatments succeed on...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-maya-schuldiner
September 2, 2020
Prof. Maya Schuldiner has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Germany, Leopoldina...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-yardena-samuels-1
September 2, 2020
Prof. Yardena Samuels is the recipient of the 2020 Estela Medrano Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/yeda-news
October 1, 2020
Gene Therapy Firm Enters Collaboration Agreement with Weizmann Lab One of the directions biomedical firms are pursuing for curing hereditary diseases is gene therapy – using harmless viruses to insert healthy genes into a patient’s cells to replace faulty or missing ones. The...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/profiling-covid-19-coronavirus
September 9, 2020
“Contact tracing” inside infected cells is providing new clues into the workings of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. A research team at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Institute for Biological Research, in Ness Ziona, Israel, used the contacts between...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-could-provide-us-next-antivirals
September 16, 2020
By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting off viral infection, a group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a gold mine of antiviral substances that may lead to the development of highly effective antiviral drugs. These substances ar...
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