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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-great-was-great-oxygenation-event
February 25, 2021
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in its history: According to the geological record, molecular oxygen suddenly went from nonexistent to becoming freely available everywhere. Evidence for the “great oxygenation event” (GOE)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/uncovering-anti-myeloma-resistance-files
February 22, 2021
Multiple myeloma patients live much longer today than in the past, thanks to new targeted anti-myeloma drugs, but ultimately most develop resistance to the medications, and in some the disease is resistant to therapy from the start. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, in c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/-/weizmann-institute-science-and-mbzuai-establish-joint-ai
February 24, 2021
Following the memorandum of understanding signed by the Weizmann Institute of Science and the UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in September 2020, the two institutions have announced the establishment of the WIS-MBZUAI Joint Program for Artifi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/killing-them-softly-–-proteasomes
March 8, 2021
Red blood cells are the body's lifeline, but they also serve as the perfect hosts for one of the world’s deadliest organisms: the malaria parasite. About two weeks after infecting the body, Plasmodium falciparum launches its invasion, rapidly taking over the insides of masses of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/affinity-science
March 11, 2021
Prof. Meir Wilchek still remembers the day, in the 1950s, when he overheard a mother yelling in the street to her young son: “If you don’t go to school, you’ll end up like him!” Wilchek – the "him" referred to – was at that moment disheveled, having risen early to complete his bi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/advanced-mouse-embryos-grown-outside-uterus
March 17, 2021
To observe how a tiny ball of identical cells on its way to becoming a mammalian embryo first attaches to an awaiting uterine wall and then develops into nervous system, heart, stomach and limbs: This has been a highly-sought grail in the field of embryonic development for nearly...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/evolved-stop-bacteria-designed-stability
March 15, 2021
Connections are crucial. Bacteria may be most dangerous when they connect -- banding together to build fortress-like structures known as biofilms that afford them resistance to antibiotics. But a biomolecular scientist in Israel and a microbiologist in California have forged thei...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/how-bushfire-smoke-traveled-around-world
March 18, 2021
It’s not just how hot the fires burn – it’s also where they burn that matters. During the recent extreme fire season in Australia, which began in 2019 and burned into 2020, millions of tons of smoke particles were released into the atmosphere. Most of those particles followed a t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/inspired-cartilage
March 22, 2021
What copes with heavy pressure and exists in a state of constant friction, decade after decade, yet barely gets worn down? The answer is the cartilage padding our joints – actually a marvelous system that both absorbs shocks and lubricates the joints, allowing bones to slide easi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-may-aid-anti-cancer-immune-response
March 17, 2021
Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost from an unexpected direction: bacteria residing within tumor cells. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and their collaborators have discovered that the immune system "sees" these bacteria and s...
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