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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/moonshot-provides-blueprint-future-pandemic-drugs
November 10, 2023
An international crowdsourced campaign to discover an anti-COVID-19 drug has created a blueprint for the accelerated, patent-free development of drugs to treat viral threats to humanity. The results of the campaign, COVID Moonshot – co-led by Prof. Nir London of the Weizmann Inst...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/solar-forest
November 21, 2023
A verdant forest is one of the most iconic symbols of the power of nature, from the abundance of plant and animal life that shelters among its thick vegetation to the positive impact it has on Earth’s climate, thanks in part to photosynthesis, which removes carbon dioxide from th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/newly-discovered-autoimmune-disorder-disrupts-tooth-enamel-development
December 2, 2023
Enamel, the hardest and most mineral-rich substance in the human body, covers and protects our teeth. But in one of every 10 people – and in one third of children with celiac disease – this layer appears defective, failing to protect the teeth properly. As a result, teeth become...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/traces-trauma-young-brain-–-and-how-erase-them
December 3, 2023
The images of Israeli child hostages being freed from Hamas captivity are heartwarming, but for most of these children, the release is just the start of a long rehabilitation process. Countless studies have shown that exposure to warfare, abuse and other traumatic events at a you...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/far-no-further
December 8, 2023
Since the horrifying atrocity of October 7th, there has been a distressing surge in anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on numerous campuses across the United States, including some of its most esteemed universities. Instead of offering empathy and support to Israeli and Jewi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/when-dryness-intrudes-floods-ensue
December 12, 2023
In 2018, in the Indian state of Kerala, more than 400 people died in a single series of floods that displaced millions. Flooding is a regular feature of the yearly monsoon season in tropical Asia, but until now it has been difficult to predict how and when the normally heavy mons...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/why-people-diabetes-are-more-prone-respiratory-risk
December 14, 2023
For decades, it has been known that people with diabetes are at a substantially increased risk of developing severe lung disease if they become infected with viruses such as influenza, as well as with bacteria and fungi. When the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020, this myst...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tears-without-fears-sniffing-women’s-tears-reduces-aggression-men
December 21, 2023
All land mammals have tear glands in their eyes, but the human tearing experience was until recently considered unique. After all, we are the only animal to shed a tear while watching Beaches. Now a new Weizmann Institute of Science study reveals that human tears have much more i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/local-heroes
January 14, 2024
As they have done over the past decade, Prof. Avraham Levy and Naomi Avivi-Ragolsky of the Weizmann Institute of Science planned to conduct a field experiment with wheat this year at the Gilat experimental station, the southern branch of the Agricultural Research Organization of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/standing-united-when-immune-cells-join-forces-cancer-therapy-more-effective
January 18, 2024
Winning on the battlefield takes a combination of precise intelligence and resolute soldiers. But when it comes to the battle against cancer, the immune system’s fighters – the T cells – quickly lose their ability to kill and become exhausted, while the intelligence-providing den...
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