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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/scent-friend
June 24, 2022
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor. The researchers were even able to predict the quality of social interactions between complete strangers by first “smelling” them...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/curbing-candida-cells-keep-fungal-infections-bay
June 27, 2022
Of all the fungi that live in the human body, the most infamous is probably the yeast Candida. This distant cousin of baker’s yeast is notorious for causing various types of thrush that can be a major nuisance, but it can also lead to an invasive infection that may, on occasion,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/empowering-teachers-ai
July 3, 2022
Is it possible to be right 100% of the time? This question haunted Alan “The Brain” Powers when his classroom welcomed an interactive talking whiteboard named Hugo. “The Brain” is the class genius in the animated children’s series Arthur, and Hugo, who claimed to be 100% accurate...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/creating-cells-can-be-everything-and-more
July 12, 2022
For all the excitement about the healing potential of embryonic stem cells, with their ability to mature into any kind of body tissue, these cells are, surprisingly, not the winners of the “endless possibilities” award. This prize goes to even earlier cells that make up the embry...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/“zip-codes”-tell-rna-where-go
July 26, 2022
They say that life comes without an instruction manual, but that’s not entirely true. Each cell in our body lives according to instructions issued by its DNA in the form of RNA molecules. RNA was recently thrust into the limelight as the basis of innovative COVID-19 vaccines, but...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/without-egg-sperm-or-womb-synthetic-mouse-embryo-models-created-solely-stem-cells
August 1, 2022
An egg meets a sperm – that’s a necessary first step in life’s beginnings, and it’s also a common first step in embryonic development research. But in a Weizmann Institute of Science study published today in Cell, researchers have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/viruses-fight-disease
August 4, 2022
The myriads of microbes in our gut, collectively termed the microbiome, are considered important to our health, but they can also harbor bacteria that contribute to inflammatory bowel disease or other disorders. Currently, however, it is impossible to target such disease-contribu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-moni-naor-1
August 11, 2022
Prof. Moni Naor was awarded the 2022 IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-moni-naor-2
August 11, 2022
Prof. Moni Naor was the Recipient of a 2022 STOC Test of Time Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-eran-elinav-2
August 11, 2022
Prof. Eran Elinav was appointed head of the Department of Systems Immunology...
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