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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/surprising-new-material-gets-lead-out
August 22, 2024
The ceramic produced in Prof. Igor Lubomirsky’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science seemed too good to be true. It belongs to a class of materials that are the backbone of many essential technologies but that unfortunately also create an environmental problem because they us...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/discovery-set-your-heart-knocking
August 26, 2024
In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis in laboratory animals. The scientists – Prof. Michael Sela, Prof. Ruth Arnon an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/peeling-back-layers-brain-tumors
August 29, 2024
The cells that make up cancerous brain tumors are extremely varied and sometimes create unique three-dimensional shapes. As far back as 1932, American neurosurgeon Percival Bailey attempted to label these cells and discovered that they can be divided into several families of cell...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/weizmann-institute-science-ranked-among-world’s-top-ten-academic
August 27, 2024
The Weizmann Institute of Science maintains its status as one of the world’s leading research institutions. It has recently been placed in the top ten among universities worldwide in a weighted (proportional) ranking of research quality published annually by the Centre for Scienc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/new-circuit-made-dna-has-everything-wired
September 3, 2024
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers were thrilled when they managed to observe the birth of a protein made by a single DNA molecule: No one had previously seen this event outside a cell. That excitement, however, was only the beginning. The insights from the observation ena...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/plastic-fantastic-green-strong-and-edible
September 5, 2024
Billions of tons of plastic waste clutter our world. Most of it has accumulated on the ground and in the oceans or disintegrated into tiny particles known as microplastics that pollute the air and the water, penetrating vegetation and the bloodstreams of humans and other animals....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/both-faster-and-stronger
September 9, 2024
Cellular immunotherapy, a leading form of cancer treatment, enlists the “warriors” of our immune system, our T-cells, in the war on cancer. During preparations for the treatment, doctors take a sample of T-cells from the patient and activate them to make them divide rapidly and f...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/“you-are-our-hope”
September 11, 2024
“Within all the chaos that surrounds us, there is a bubble in which a small group of talented students can chase their wildest ideas, ask the most fundamental questions and develop technologies that just yesterday were considered a dream. In recent years, we were sometimes worrie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/light
September 16, 2024
Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and certain kinds of bacteria convert solar radiation into chemical energy, must adjust itself to changes in the intensity of sunlight, so as to ensure its efficient use. Just like our pupils, which react to varying degrees of li...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/stormy-findings-and-hot-discoveries
September 19, 2024
The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record and, unfortunately, this came as no surprise. Summers have been getting hotter and drier around the world, including in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to intense droughts and heatwaves in North America and Europe and posing serious r...
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