https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-michal-leskes-1
December 6, 2020
Dr. Michal Leskes is the recipient of the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Early Career Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yadin-dudai-10
December 6, 2020
Prof. Yadin Dudai has been appointed Fellow of the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/copying-foreign-genes-helps-bacteria-withstand-test-time
February 4, 2021
Consider the following dilemma: You turn up for an exam, having no prior knowledge of the subject. You are handed one of two opportunities: You can get your answers either from an expert, but in a completely different language from yours or, alternatively, from someone who has on...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-cancers-hurt-themselves-hurt-immune-cells-more
December 16, 2020
Cancers like melanoma are hard to treat, not least because they have a varied bag of tricks for defeating or evading treatments. A combined research effort by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and researchers in the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/events/virtual-open-day-msc-and-phd-studies-29-january-2021
December 20, 2020
Click on the link for more information and to register for the Virtual Open Day Visit the Feinberg Graduate School website If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact the Feinberg Graduate School...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/plastic-blowing-wind
December 23, 2020
As the plastic in our oceans breaks up into smaller and smaller bits without breaking down chemically, the resulting microplastics are becoming a serious ecological problem. A new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals a troubling aspect of microplastics – defined as...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/brain-mechanism-underlying-“vision”-blind-revealed
January 7, 2021
Some people have lost their eyesight, but they continue to “see.” This phenomenon, a kind of vivid visual hallucination, is named after the Swiss doctor, Charles Bonnet, who described in 1769 how his completely blind grandfather experienced vivid, detailed visions of people, anim...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-ernesto-joselevich
December 22, 2020
Prof. Ernesto Joselevich is the recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Research Excellence Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-gilad-haran
December 22, 2020
Prof. Gilad Haran has been admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/helping-brain’s-immune-cells-regain-ground-state
January 11, 2021
Microglia – hairy cells arrayed in dense formation deep within our brain tissue – seemed, in the standard still images, to sit so quietly in place that for years they were, alongside other non-neuron cells, thought to be mere “glue,” or glia. But researchers now know that microgl...