In this video on Business Insider, Prof. Eran Segal explains why what – and when – we eat is so important.
November 02, 2017
In October, LIGO and its European counterpart, VIRGO, witnessed gravitational waves rippling out from a breathtaking collision between two neutron stars. This unprecedented event looked like yet another triumph for a new kind of astronomy, one that could use gravitational waves to probe some of the universe’s deepest mysteries. But in all the excitement, most people didn’t notice that something had died: a whole group of theories that posit a universe with no dark matter.
October 31, 2017
Placebos have been shown to help people work out harder and do better on memory tests. As New Scientist reports, two Weizmann scientists examined “whether the placebo effect can stimulate creativity too.”
October 27, 2017
As reported in Scientific American, a discovery at Weizmann is helping researchers fight aging.
October 25, 2017
Kite founder Arie Belldegrun studied at the Weizmann Institute, where Prof. Zelig Eshhar created the CAR T-cell therapy “that is at the heart of the medication,” says The Times of Israel.
October 23, 2017
As The Jerusalem Post reports, Pluristem uses technology developed by Weizmann and the Technion to develop cell therapies for conditions such as inflammation, muscle injuries, blood disorders – even for “victims of radioactive catastrophes.”
October 20, 2017
Nature reports on the international mission to study Jupiter via NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Juno has now “plumbed the depths of Jupiter,” showing that the “planet’s famous bands of swirling winds” extend quite far down. According to Weizmann’s Dr. Yohai Kaspi, “Determining this is one of the main goals of the Juno mission.”
October 19, 2017
Physics reports that Noam Matzliah, a PhD student in the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Physics of Complex Systems, has “demonstrated a new kind of atom-acting optical force that squeezes a whole cloud of atoms.”
October 19, 2017
Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have shown it is possible to turn mature cells from the heart, brain and other organs in mice models into skin cells. Their findings, just published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, proves for the first time that it is possible to repurpose the function of different mature cells across the body and harvest new tissue and organs from these cells. “The applications of this are unlimited – from transplants, which would eliminate long waiting lists and eliminate the common problem of immune system rejection of ‘foreign’ organs; to maybe one day curing deafness: taking any cell in the body and transforming it into melanocytes to aid in the restoration of hearing. The possibilities are really beyond the scope of the imagination,” said Prof. Carmit Levy of the TAU Sackler School of Medicine’s human molecular genetics and biochemistry department.
October 19, 2017
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