News Releases
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Culture & Community
Weizmann Institute of Science and Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Clalit Health Services to Collaborate
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 29, 2020—The Weizmann Institute of Science and Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Clalit Health Services signed a Memorandum of Understanding today on a collaborative biomedical research initiative. The “Schneider-Weizmann Center for Research on Child and Adolescent Health” will be jointly established by the two entities.
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Advancing Technology
Artificial Cells Produce Parts of Viruses for Safe Studies
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 20, 2020—Scientists searching for better diagnostic tests, drugs, or vaccines against a virus must begin by deciphering the structure of that virus. And when the virus in question is highly pathogenic, such research can be quite dangerous.
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Fighting Cancer
A New Approach to Tailoring Cancer Therapy: Tapping Into Signaling Activities in Cancer Cells
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 16, 2020—Choosing the right drug for each cancer patient is key to successful treatment, but physicians currently have few reliable pointers to guide them in designing treatment protocols. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have now developed a new method...
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Exploring the Physical World
The Magnetic History of Ice
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 29, 2020—The history of our planet has been written, among other things, in the periodic reversal of its magnetic poles. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science propose a new means of reading this historic record: in ice.
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Culture & Community
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Appoints James Konschnik Executive Director, Florida Region
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL—June 25, 2020—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science announced that James Konschnik, CFRE, has been appointed Executive Director of its Florida Region.
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Culture & Community
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Appoints Dane Riggs Executive Director, Southwest Region
NEW YORK, NY—June 25, 2020—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science announced that Dane Riggs of Norman, OK, has been appointed Executive Director of its Southwest Region, comprising Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
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Exploring the Physical World
Which Came First?
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 22, 2020—What did the very first proteins – those that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago – look like? Prof. Dan Tawfik of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Prof. Norman Metanis of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have reconstructed protein sequences that may well resemble those ancestors of modern proteins...
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Culture & Community
Weizmann Institute of Science is Seventh in Receiving Top European Research Commission Grants
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 22, 2020—The Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked seventh in Europe – and first in Israel – for the total number of research grants received from the European Research Council (ERC) for the years 2007-2019.
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Improving Health & Medicine
What Does the “Love Hormone” Do? It’s Complicated
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 15, 2020—During the pandemic lockdown, as couples have been forced to spend days and weeks in one another’s company, some have found their love renewed while others are on their way to divorce court. Oxytocin, a peptide produced in the brain, is complicated in that way...
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Culture & Community
Science on Tap 2020
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 8, 2020—After a 10-year-long successful run, and 14 events altogether – events that have changed our ideas about pleasurable entertainment and brought an original concept to the night life and culture of the big city – Science on Tap will be held this year...
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Fighting Cancer
Cells Inside Cells: The Bacteria That Live in Cancer Cells
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 2, 2020—Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria. That conclusion arises from a rigorous study of over 1,000 tumor samples of different human cancers.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Paying the Price of Protection
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 19, 2020—Is the wanton killing of cells in autoimmune disease a case of mistaken identity, or does it arise from an important physiological service? The first is the commonly accepted view – that autoimmune attack is a sort of mistake.
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Exploring the Physical World
NASA’s Next Destination?
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 14, 2020—An incredibly accurate clock planned by the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Israeli Space Agency, and an Israeli company could be on its way to Neptune’s largest moon in 2026.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop “Sniff Test” That Predicts Recovery of Consciousness in Brain-Injured Patients
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 30, 2020—If an unconscious person responds to smell through a slight change in their nasal airflow pattern, they are likely to regain consciousness. This is the conclusion from a new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists and colleagues at Israel’s Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Coronavirus
The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science Have Signed a Memorandum of Understanding to Collaborate in the Fight Against Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 20, 2020—The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science will join efforts in advancing research designed to develop ways to combat the coronavirus.
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Improving Health & Medicine
The Self-Synthesizing Ribosome
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 20, 2020—As the cell’s protein factory, the ribosome is the only natural machine that manufactures its own parts. That’s why understanding how the machine itself is made could unlock the door to everything from understanding how life develops to designing new methods of drug production.
