Avigdor Scherz

illustration: enjoying the sunlight

01.05.2004

Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

In contrast to fossil fuels, the sun provides a clean, cost-free, and virtually inexhaustible source of energy.

Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Light Harvesting

01.01.2002

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Plants and Agriculture

Chlorophyll molecules have been selected by nature over billions of years of evolution to help plants and certain bacteria utilize...

light therapy gets green light

light therapy gets green light

01.05.1998

Chlorophyll + light = a cancer-killing therapy

'Green' Approach May Significantly Improve Cancer Therapy

'Green' Approach May Significantly Improve Cancer Therapy

03.02.1998

REHOVOT, Israel - February 3, 1998 - A promising cancer therapy which destroys tumors by exposing them to...

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An electron microscope view of phages duplicated inside bacterial cells that possess the immune system discovered in the new study. This immune system attaches a ubiquitin-like protein (marked by black dots and white arrows) to the tails of these phages, preventing them from infecting other bacterial cells

Catch a Virus by Its Tail

Sperm Welcome – But Their Mitochondria Must Go

Sticking a Pin in Cancer

A Sweet New MRI Method “Lights Up” Pancreatic Cancer

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Excellence, Resilience and Diligence: Meet the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Honorary PhD Recipients

Beating the Plateau

Shaping the Role of Future Physician-Scientists

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Checking the Dosage

Prof. Yoram Groner is a pioneer in Down syndrome research

One Protein, Two Programs

A cell’s decision to commit suicide involves an exchange of information between two suicide mechanisms

The Limits of Computing

Computers can solve complex problems but they are far from omnipotent. Prof. Ran Raz of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is trying to portray the limits...