The European Research Council created a web comic to illustrate Prof. Ulf Leonhardt’s invisibility research in a memorable and engaging way.
November 23, 2018
Fortune reports on investment by major corporations in Duality Technologies, the cutting-edge tech firm co-founded by Weizmann’s encryption pioneer Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser.
November 13, 2018
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Weizmann Institute of Science as the best university in Israel.
November 01, 2018
While many of his peers spent the summer gearing up for college, Tony Pan of Grosse Pointe Farms traveled to Israel to work in a lab at one of the world’s foremost scientific research institutions. Thanks to a scholarship from the Borman family of Bloomfield Hills, Pan was one of 19 American teens participating in the 50th annual Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, a global leader in scientific disciplines, from cancer to alternative energy to space exploration.
October 25, 2018
The Jerusalem Post features an interview with Weizmann staff scientist Dr. Daniela Novick, whose research has helped create drugs that ease the suffering of MS and rheumatoid arthritis patients.
October 25, 2018
Weizmann’s Dr. Tamir Klein and colleagues conducted a large-scale study showing that climate change is deforesting Israel. Haaretz reports.
October 22, 2018
The craft will carry a Weizmann Institute project to measure the moon’s magnetic field.
October 03, 2018
A highly personalized approach could help the body’s immune cells better recognize melanoma (the most dangerous type of skin cancer) and kill it, according to an Israeli study published in Cancer Discovery. Today’s immunotherapies involve administering antibodies to unlock the natural immune T cells that recognize and kill cancer cells; or growing and reactivating these T cells outside the body and returning them in a “weaponized” form.
September 24, 2018
Probiotics, hailed by some as a cure for all kinds of digestive ailments and recommended by many GPs alongside antibiotics, may not be as universally beneficial for gut health as previously thought. The gut microbiome is the sum total of all the micro-organisms living in a person’s gut, and has been shown to play a huge role in human health. New research has found probiotics – usually taken as supplements or in foods such as yoghurt, kimchi or kefir – can hinder a patient’s gut microbiome from returning to normal after a course of antibiotics, and that different people respond to probiotics in dramatically different ways.
September 06, 2018
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