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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.
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Dec 22, 2021... Prof. Ulitsky’s discoveries have unlocked the potential of using lncRNAs as both therapeutic agents and targets with promising potential treatment of diseases such as cancer, brain injury, and epilepsy.
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Mar 14, 2022...
What is the origin of life? It’s one of humanity’s greatest questions, and theories differ amidst the scientific community. Right now, the leading hypothesis is that life developed from RNA molecules, known for being able to self-replicate.
Weizmann’s Prof. Doron Lancet disagrees, and thinks it’s highly improbable that the origin of life traces back to a single complex molecule. More likely, he believes it traces back to assemblies of simple chemical compounds that can form spontaneously and reproduce as a whole, and he’s built a computational chemistry model to show the feasibility of this alternative timeline.
Aug 01, 2022... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 1, 2022— An egg meets a sperm – that’s a necessary first step in life’s beginnings, and it’s also a common first step in embryonic development research. But in a Weizmann Institute of Science study published today in Cell, researchers have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb by starting solely with stem cells cultured in a petri dish – that is, without the use of fertilized eggs. The method opens new horizons for studying how stem cells form various organs in the developing embryo, and may one day make it possible to grow tissues and organs for transplantation using synthetic embryo models.
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