Aharon Katzir

Prof. Ada Yonath was nominated Honors Program Lecturer at New York University School of Medicine; received the 2008 Linus Pauling Gold Medal from Stanford University; and was named George E. Palade Distinguished Lecturer and Gold Medal recipient at Wayne State University.

A Life in Science

26.11.2013

Prof. Ora Kedem is a membrane research pioneer

Katzir in his lab, 1972

A Poet of Science

13.08.2012

Prof. Aharon Katzir’s message is still relevant 40 years after his death in a terrorist attack

Inauguration of the Weizmann Institute of Science, November 2, 1949

27.02.2012

It was with great sorrow that Dr. Benjamin Marcus Bloch gave up on physics to take on the management of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute at the...

Scientist in the Service of Israel: The Life and Times of Ernst David Bergmann (1903-1975)

The Incorrigible Optimist

27.02.2012

A new biography tells the extraordinary story of the Institute’s first scientific director

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Burning Cancer’s Bridges

Crystalizing Our Comprehension of Malaria

A tumor sample from a human patient with the most common type of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma). Senescent cells are highlighted by their expression of the p16 (red) and the PD-L1 (green) proteins. Cell nuclei are in blue

Unclogging the Immune System

MRI brain scans of mice with Gaucher disease Type III. The scan of a mouse that received the new treatment (left) shows a significant reduction in tissue inflammation (blue) compared to an untreated mouse (right)

Improving the Recipe for Gene Therapy

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions

A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking

Navigating the Digestive Tract

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Let it Rain

Added particles in the atmosphere could be affecting rainfall patterns

Prof. Zvi Artstein, Vice President for Technology Transfer

Prof. Zvi Artstein

One Protein, Two Programs

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