https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-ron-naaman
August 8, 2021
Prof. Ron Naaman has been elected a Member of the Academia Europaea and Admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-brain’s-gps-goes-grid
August 11, 2021
In a new study published in Nature today, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, unveiled for the first time how three-dimensional space is represented in the mammalian cortex by the brain’s “GPS” syste...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/putting-super-cork-coronavirus
August 18, 2021
Even though vaccines may be steering the world toward a post-pandemic normal, a constantly mutating SARS-CoV-2 necessitates the development of effective drugs. In a new study published in Nature Microbiology, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, together with collaborators...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/spinning-threads-quantum-memory
August 26, 2021
Quantum computers have left the realm of pure science fiction and are now the source of countless studies and industry endeavors in some of the world’s biggest technological firms. These computers, still in their conceptual infancy, are expected to process data at a staggering sp...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/making-cells-talk-again
August 26, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 is known as a particularly stealthy virus – one that employs several mechanisms to actively evade detection by its host’s immune system. In a recent study, a team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, together with their Australian collaborators, uncover...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/outskirts-nucleus
September 5, 2021
If you open a biology textbook and run through the images depicting how DNA is organized in the cell’s nucleus, chances are you’ll start feeling hungry; the chains of DNA would seem like a bowl of ramen: long strings floating in liquid. However, according to two new studies – one...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/body’s-main-cellular-squeeze
September 13, 2021
Whenever we lay eyes on a mouth-watering dessert, swallow a piece of food or start crying, cells in our bodies release specialized fluids: saliva, digestive juices or tears. Ways in which these fluids and other substances move to the outsides of the cells have been studied for ne...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-dan-oron-1
September 13, 2021
Prof. Dan Oron has been appointed Head of the Chemical Research Support Department...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-ruth-arnon-0
September 13, 2021
Prof. Ruth Arnon has been appointed as an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-yohai-kaspi
September 13, 2021
Prof. Yohai Kaspi has been appointed Chair of the Postdoctoral Program at the Weizmann Institute of Science...