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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ronen-alon-0
August 11, 2022
Prof. Ronen Alon was appointed Head of the Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology (IRB)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ofer-yizhar
August 11, 2022
Prof. Ofer Yizhar was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-rina-rosenzweig-0
August 11, 2022
Dr. Rina Rosenzweig was the recipient of the 2022 Russell Varian Young Investigator Award...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sweetness-comes-price-sugar-substitutes-may-affect-human-body-unanticipated-ways
August 18, 2022
Non-nutritive sweeteners – also known as sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners – are supposed to deliver all the sweetness of sugar without the calories. But a controlled trial conducted by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, published today in Cell, suggests that con...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/neurons-caught-rapidly-switching-gears
August 24, 2022
Even during such routine tasks as a daily stroll, our brain sometimes needs to shift gears, switching from navigating the city to jumping out of the way of a bike or to crossing the street to greet a friend. These switches pose a challenge: How do the brain’s circuits deal with s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/desperate-cancer-cells
August 31, 2022
Desperate times call for desperate measures, says an ancient proverb, but whoever coined it surely could not have imagined that it would hold so true on such small scales. About half a century ago, scientists found that when bacteria are desperate to avoid a mortal threat, they a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/putting-liquid-biopsies-solid-ground-cancer-diagnosis-milliliter-blood
September 8, 2022
Blood tests – simple, noninvasive and economically feasible – promise to become the next major milestone in cancer diagnosis. However, most of these tests, dubbed liquid biopsies, are currently not reliable enough for widespread use. A new, multiparameter approach developed at th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/kavli-prize-awarded-prof-jacob-sagiv
September 7, 2022
In a festive ceremony held yesterday, September 6, at the Oslo Concert Hall, Prof. Jacob Sagiv of the Weizmann Institute of Science was awarded the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. Sagiv, a member of the Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Department and the first Israeli t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/origin-life-–-rna-pocket
September 14, 2022
This story begins several billion years ago. There's only chemistry, no biology – that is, plenty of chemical compounds exist on Earth, but life hasn’t yet emerged. Then, among myriads of randomly self-assembled chemical structures, one tiny RNA molecular machine reveals itself a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/human-tumors-are-prized-real-estate-fungi-study-finds
September 29, 2022
Cancer tumors contain multiple species of fungi that differ per tumor type, according to a large study led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of California, San Diego. The study, published today in Cell, potentially has implications for the...
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