https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-jacob-klein-1
July 11, 2021
Prof. Jacob Klein is the recipient of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) 2021 Overbeek Gold Medal...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/signs-are-matrix
July 12, 2021
The morbidity rate of inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis is steadily on the rise in developed countries. Despite the progress that has been made in our ability to treat such illnesses, patients suffering mild to severe symptoms are still re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/asya-svirinovsky
July 12, 2021
Asya Svirinovsky (in the group of Dr. Michal Leskes), has been awarded the 2021 poster award from the Israel Electrochemical Society...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/shira-haber
July 12, 2021
Shira Haber (in the group of Dr. Michal Leskes), has been awarded the 2021 student talk award from the Israel Electrochemical Society...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-blood
July 15, 2021
Our blood is constantly replenished by new arrivals minted from a small pool of dedicated stem cells in the bone marrow. Throughout this process, a secure cache of blood stem cells is always left behind: They divide without losing their stem-cell properties, so that the life-sust...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/jupiters-super-polar-cyclones-are-here-stay
July 19, 2021
Until recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its orbit around the planet Jupiter, no one knew that powerful cyclones, approximately the size of Australia, rage across its polar regions. Jupiter's storms, as opposed to their earthly variety, do not disperse, hardly chang...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cracking-code-natural-rna-editor
July 27, 2021
When Dr. Schraga Schwartz used to tell people that he studied RNA modifications, most had no clue what he was talking about. Not any more: RNA is now a global buzzword, thanks to COVID-19 vaccines that are based on chemically modified RNA molecules. In the future, technologies re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/life’s-moving-picture
July 29, 2021
Each of our individual cells has its precise place and function and is able to integrate seamlessly with other various cell types to perform the tasks necessary for the body’s correct development and functionality. This fascinating process has drawn the attention of many scientis...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/calling-through-dna-wire
August 5, 2021
Proteins can communicate through DNA, conducting a long-distance dialogue that serves as a kind of genetic “switch,” according to Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. They found that the binding of proteins to one site of a DNA molecule can physically affect another binding...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“emotional-covid-19”-how-global-pandemic-affected-mental-well-being-israelis
August 8, 2021
During the six weeks between the end of the first COVID-19 outbreak in Israel and the beginning of the second one (late April to early June of 2020), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science initiated a study that encompassed more than 12,000 responses from nearly 5,000 r...