As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary needs of humans and livestock. A pair of scientists is now making the case that the knowledge and tools exist to facilitate the next agricultural revolution we so desperately need.
September 19, 2019
Israeli researchers have deciphered the unique “self-healing” process of solar materials halide perovskites, making the development of optoelectronics materials possible, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) reported on Thursday.
September 19, 2019
The Times of Israel reports on new research by Prof. Yardena Samuels’s lab that could lead to new, more personalized treatments for cancer.
September 13, 2019
Diversity – at least among cancer cells – is not a good thing. Now, research from the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that in melanoma, tumors with cells that have differentiated into more diverse subtypes are less likely to be affected by the immune system, thus reducing the chance that immunotherapy will be effective. The findings of this research, which were published in Cell, may provide better tools for designing personalized protocols for cancer patients, as well as pointing toward new avenues of research into anti-cancer vaccines.
September 12, 2019
A 2019 Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School graduate experienced what aspiring scientists might call the experience of a lifetime this past summer. Woodmere resident Miriam Kopyto was chosen by the world renowned Weizmann Institute of Science to take part, alongside 55 other teenagers from across the world, in the institution’s annual Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
September 12, 2019
Scientists have resolved a long-standing mystery: why the Temple Scroll, compared to other Dead Sea Scrolls, is in such good condition. As the Times of Israel reports, it was prepared with a mix of techniques unusual for the region.
September 11, 2019
Israeli scientists have developed a method that allows unprecedented observation of embryonic stem cell differentiation, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) reported Tuesday.
September 11, 2019
Israeli and Italian scientists have developed a method which may lead to cost-lowering and streamlining of drug, pesticide and fertilizer production, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) reported Monday. In the mid-19th century, Louis Pasteur discovered molecular “handedness,” the existence of left and right handed versions of the same molecule.
September 10, 2019
Newsweek writes about research from Weizmann’s Dr. Peter Crockford. Along with an international team, he developed a way to study minerals that revealed an ancient, massive die off of life.
September 02, 2019
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