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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/11th-president-weizmann-institute-and-four-new-vice-presidents-take-office
December 1, 2019
The 11th president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Alon Chen, took office today. He is joined by four new vice presidents, all of whom assumed their new mantles today. “The Weizmann Institute is a world-leading research institution that generates transformative knowle...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus/standing-together-against-terror-and-violence-call-international-science-community
October 16, 2023
Dear colleagues and friends, We write to you today not only as scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, but also as fellow researchers and advocates for truth, knowledge, and humanity. As you all know, Israel suffered an unprecedented attack by Hamas terrorists last...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/der-körper-weiß-es-am-besten-ein-natürlicher-heilmechanismus-für-entzündliche
May 30, 2018
Die Behandlung entzündlicher Darmerkrankungen ist extrem schwierig: Gene, Darmmikroben und gestörte Immunfunktionen tragen alle dazu bei. Wissenschaftler des Weizmann Instituts für Wissenschaft schlagen einen Weg vor, um diese Komplexität zu bewältigen. In einer Studie an Mäusen,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/body-knows-best-natural-healing-mechanism-inflammatory-bowel-disease
May 30, 2018
Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel is extremely challenging because their causes are complex: Genes, gut microbes and disrupted immune function are but some of the contributing factors. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are proposing a way around this complexity...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/sustainable-science
April 7, 2023
In a quiet spot in the Wolfson Building on the Weizmann Institute campus, a powerful but disused microscope was slowly gathering dust. The instrument, which had been used by a researcher who is no longer at the Weizmann Institute of Science, cost tens of thousands of shekels w...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reading-biological-clock-dark
October 21, 2014
Our species’ waking and sleeping cycles – shaped in millions of years of evolution – have been turned upside down within a single century with the advent of electric lighting and airplanes. As a result, millions of people regularly disrupt their biological clocks – for example, s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/blocking-resistance-could-reduce-insecticide-use
October 28, 2019
Thousands of tons of insecticides are spewed on crops and farm animals worldwide, and these amounts are still growing because the insects are increasingly developing resistance to the chemicals. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with scientists in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-does-your-microbiome-grow
September 1, 2015
It is increasingly clear that the thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on our health. But the details of the microbiome’s effects are still fairly murky. A Weizmann Institute study that recently appeared in Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/surprising-players-acute-liver-failure-point-potential-treatment
October 26, 2020
Acute liver failure is a devastating, rapidly progressing disease that results in death in 80% of cases, unless an emergency liver transplant is performed. In the developed world, its leading cause is a substantial overdose of acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol. In a stu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-microbes-may-affect-course-als
July 22, 2019
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown in mice that intestinal microbes, collectively termed the gut microbiome, may affect the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. As reported today in Nature, progression of an A...
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