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Fighting Cancer
The Dark Side of the Sun
Did you know that skin cancer is our most common cancer? It's been on the rise for more than 30 years, with dangerous melanomas increasing at a particularly high rate. We need more than sunblock to fight it. That's why Weizmann scientists are tackling skin cancer from angles ranging from genetics to how cancer sometimes survives toxic treatments.
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Advancing Technology
New Space Telescopes Will Build on Israeli Experience
The Weizmann International Magazine of Science and People
The Weizmann Institute's stellar astrophysics team is developing a small, light satellite that will be equipped with a telescope searching in the ultraviolet range for events such as supernovas and black holes. The team is collaborating with Caltech and NASA, among others, on the satellite, which is a first for Weizmann – and for Israel.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Alzheimer’s Disease Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science
At the Weizmann Institute, scientists from a range of disciplines are investigating the causes and nature of Alzheimer's disease, as well as looking for ways to slow or stop its progress, and for new and better treatments.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Vision Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Weizmann scientists are conducting active vision research, with projects ranging from the basic biochemistry of the retina to studies of vision and the brain in action. Interdisciplinary groups study computer-aided and artificial vision and experiment with vaccines to prevent degenerative diseases.
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Improving Health & Medicine
What the Weizmann Institute is Doing About Heart Disease
According to the American Heart Association, more than 80 million Americans have one or more forms of cardiovascular disease. Weizmann researchers are not only searching for solutions to this health epidemic, but are also investigating the very earliest causes, such as problems during embryonic formation.
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Fighting Cancer
Cancer at a Breaking Point
Like police detectives using DNA fingerprinting, Weizmann cancer researchers are building a DNA profile of malignancy in an attempt to eradicate cancer.
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Protecting Our Planet
What the Weizmann Institute is Doing to Fight World Hunger
Weizmann scientists are unlocking the secrets of plant metabolism, genetics, and development and are concentrating their biochemical, molecular, and genomics-oriented research to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in developing countries, and to improve human health all over the world.
December 11, 2012
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Enriching Education
What I Learned
Haaretz
Weizmann President Prof. Daniel Zajfman speaks to Haaretz about knowledge, curiosity, and passion – his recipe for success – and how he has applied this formula to developing long-term strategies for the Institute. He also talks about finding happiness in work and in life: ""Ask yourself what you love to do – and then do it.""
December 02, 2012
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Improving Health & Medicine
The Enigmatic Sphingolipid: Its Role in Genetic Disease
Weizmann Views, Issue No. 35
Prof. Tony Futerman studies lipids – fatty substances found in every cell in our bodies. A type called sphingolipids builds up in harmful amounts due to some genetic diseases, such as Gaucher's. Understanding this process could lead to new and better therapies.