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
Dr. Tamir Klein finds that, in the future, we may be able to grow crops by using one climate-change problem – elevated CO2 – to help manage another: drought. IsraelAgri reports.
September 01, 2019
Did you know that malaria kills about half a million people each year? In the eighth episode of Weizmann in Focus, CEO Dave Doneson explains how Weizmann is helping to fight this terrible disease. Using computer-based tools, PhD student Adi Goldenzweig developed a groundbreaking malaria vaccine in the lab of Dr. Sarel Fleishman. Because the vaccine is inexpensive to produce and does not require refrigeration, it has the potential to help millions of people in developing countries where the battle against malaria is particularly devastating.
Developed by Weizmann PhD Dekel Taliaz, a new method employs AI to help psychiatrists prescribe the best depression medication the first time. Israel21C reports.
August 28, 2019
Israel21C reports on a finding that helped Dr. Roi Avraham and his team to “develop an algorithm that may predict the onset of such diseases as tuberculosis.”
August 27, 2019
Eliana had a rarefied summer working in the Boris Rybtchinski Lab in the Department of Organic Chemistry at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. “My research is in the ‘sustainable nanomaterials’ portion of what the lab does. We combine carbon nanotubes with organic dye nanocrystals to produce a hybrid nanocomposite in the form of a thin film that is electrically conductive and mechanically robust.” These films can be deposited on many surfaces and used as electrodes in energy storage devices. “I worked on a method which recycles the excess dye and solvent in order to make it more environmentally friendly when taken to industrial manufacturing.”
August 26, 2019
The Arizona Jewish News reports on local high-school grad Kyle Polen, who spent the summer on campus as part of the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute.
August 22, 2019
Every summer since 1969, an international migration takes place as around 80 highly talented teens flock to the Weizmann Institute’s park-like campus.
Their destination: the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI), a highly competitive program that enables high-school grads, over the summer before they start university, to take part in hands-on research alongside world-renowned scientists.
Extraterrestrial scientists landing in a football stadium would be struck by the sight of the crowd suddenly standing up and shouting in unison. In a similar manner, since the 1990s, researchers have observed a special pattern of neuronal activity in rodents: tens of thousands of nerve cells firing in unison in a part of the brain called the hippocampus. But, like alien scientists, the researchers have not been able to understand the “language” of the rodents’ minds when these mysterious synchronous bursts occurred. Recently, however, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers succeeded in recording these rapid bursts of activity – called “hippocampal ripples” – in the human brain, and were able to demonstrate their importance as a neuronal mechanism underlying the engraving of new memories and their subsequent recall. These findings appeared in Science.
August 15, 2019
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