https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-german-israeli-laboratory-inaugurated-weizmann-institute
March 5, 2014
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute of Science to inaugurate the Max Planck - Weizmann Laborato...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/weizmann-institute-science-and-clalit-health-services-will-collaborate-advance-field
March 10, 2014
The meeting was sponsored by the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, which was recently established on the Weizmann Institute campus at a cost of $120 million. Participants explored, among other things, ways in which medical data and res...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-science-tap-science-culture/science-tap-2014
April 7, 2014
Weizmann Institute scientists will be at 54 select bars and cafes in Tel Aviv chatting – in language all can understand – about the open questions and latest new findings at the forefront of science.Weizmann Institute scientists will be at 54 select bars and cafes in Tel Aviv cha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/where-have-all-mitochondria-gone
May 15, 2014
It’s common knowledge that all organisms inherit their mitochondria – the cell’s “power plants” – from their mothers. But what happens to all the father’s mitochondria? Surprisingly, how – and why – paternal mitochondria are prevented from getting passed on to their offspring aft...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/bump-means-“start”
May 15, 2014
The DNA strands in our genomes can pair up comfortably in double-helix fashion, but what about the lonely, single-stranded RNA that is copied from the DNA? The “letters” in the RNA sequence, nucleotides, are chemically built like those in the DNA to seek a mate – sometimes...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching--campus/tedx-excellence-science-and-science-education
May 15, 2014
TEDx Weizmann Institute, a conference on excellence in science and science education, will be held on May 20 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Institute has been working for the past 50 years to advance science education in Israel. The c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/blowing-stellar-wind
May 21, 2014
When a supernova – the explosion of a distant star – was discovered last year, astrophysicists, with the help of telescopes around the globe, rushed to observe the fireworks. In its dramatic dying flares, this star – a rare type over 10 times the mass of our sun – can tell us som...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/interfering-interferon
July 28, 2014
Using the body’s natural virus killers to prevent and treat HIV infection has been problematic until now because of the strong inflammatory response these molecules can arouse as they get rid of the invaders. Now, collaborative research conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/no-limits-human-effects-clouds
June 8, 2014
Understanding how clouds affect the climate has been a difficult proposition. What controls the makeup of the low clouds that cool the atmosphere or the high ones that trap heat underneath? How does human activity change patterns of cloud formation? The research of the Weizmann I...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-scientists-weizmann-institute-science-are-among-list-40-world-leading-young
June 15, 2014
Two young scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Drs. Maya Schuldiner and Jacob Hanna, are among 40 world-leading scientists in their field that have been selected by the prestigious journal Cell for their “40 under 40” list, in celebration of Cell’s 40th anniversary....