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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
When cells make mistakes – such as misfolding proteins – diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer can result. Weizmann scientists have now shown where and how such mistakes happen. Xinhua reports.
August 02, 2019
Haaretz profiles Dr. Hagar Landsman-Peles, a particle physicist who is part of the search for dark matter – and is skilled at explaining what that means.
August 01, 2019
Oxytocin is the feel-good hormone that helps us bond with loved ones, and yet is not wholly understood. Now, China’s Xinhua news agency reports that Weizmann scientists have found how oxytocin levels are renewed.
July 30, 2019
Tech expert Hillel Fuld writes in The Jerusalem Post about BiondVax, the company developing Prof. Ruth Arnon’s universal flu vaccine.
July 25, 2019
Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath -- whose pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome won her the Nobel Prize in 2009 -- has one advice for women struggling to make a mark in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): Forget what society thinks and go after what you want.
July 24, 2019
The Daily Mail reports on new research by Profs. Eran Elinav and Eran Segal, whose work shows that some microbes “speed up progression of the cruel condition that killed Professor Stephen Hawking.”
July 23, 2019
“A trailblazing study” by Profs. Eran Elinav and Eran Segal “suggests that intestinal microbes may have a direct effect on the course of … ALS, the incurable, fatal neurodegenerative disease,” reports Israel21C.
July 23, 2019
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown in mice that intestinal microbes, collectively termed the gut microbiome, may affect the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. As reported in Nature, progression of an ALS-like disease was slowed after the mice received certain strains of gut microbes or substances known to be secreted by these microbes. Preliminary results suggest that the findings on the regulatory function of the microbiome may be applicable to human patients with ALS.
July 22, 2019
First impressions are important – they can set the stage for the entire course of a relationship. The same is true for the impressions the cells of our immune system form when they first meet a new bacterium. Using this insight, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have developed an algorithm that may predict the onset of diseases such as tuberculosis. The findings of this research were published in Nature Communications.
July 22, 2019
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