5 September 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations today’s computers cannot. These may likely include the ability to crack the encryption that is currently used for...
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23 August 2018 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
During July, two high school science graduates – Dominic Agius, now at Sydney University, and Milan Leonard, now at the Australian National University – attended the month long, annual Weizmann...
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19 August 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body’s proteins, RNA and DNA, so cancerous tumors are greedy for this element. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in...
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5 August 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
New-generation lung cancer drugs have been effective in a large number of patients, but within about a year, the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at the...
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5 August 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
Although new trees are cropping up in many places around the globe in an effort to fight climate change, it has become apparent that not all types of forests are...
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29 July 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
It doesn’t often happen that army generals switch sides in the middle of a war, but when cancer’s attack is underway, it may even cause a gene that acts as...
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29 July 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
Humans cooperate to move heavy objects – whether they are lifting stones for the building of a pyramid or just moving the fridge. The only other creature known to cooperate...
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9 June 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
Dr Ran Budnik and his team in the Weizmann Institute of Science have joined 165 researchers from 27 research institutes around the world working on the XENON1T experiment. This experiment...
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9 June 2018 | Weizmann in Israel
Findings from the Weizmann Institute of Medical Research suggest that boosting signals in certain cells and not in others might help treat colon cancer. Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel...
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18 April 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
When the body needs to repair nerve injury, the machinery is already in place. Hidden within nerve cells is a ‘one-ring-to-rule-them-all’ kind of trigger: a molecular machine that can ramp...
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18 April 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and recently published in Nature Communications has delved into the process by which small sequences of RNA – microRNAs – regulate the long...
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28 March 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
A new analysis from the Weizmann Institute of Science and partners suggests hundreds of millions more could eat from the same resources if we switched to plant-based diets. About a...
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21 March 2018 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Just think of this: you are in a lab working on developing a strategy against cancer that will trigger the body’s early detection of tumours; studying surfaces using scanning tunnelling...
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9 March 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
Three papers published in Nature and broadly reported in the media, answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful...
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7 March 2018 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
It was just under two years ago that ANU student, Matt Goh, was awarded the Trawalla Foundation-Weizmann Australia Scholarship to attend the 2016 Weizmann Institute of Science International Summer Science...
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2 March 2018 | Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
The question of nature vs nurture extends to our microbiome – the personal complement of mostly-friendly bacteria we carry around with us and a new study brings more hope for improving...
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20 February 2018 | Videos, Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
Being born with a ‘tabula rasa’ – a clean slate – for the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we...
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12 January 2018 | Videos, Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
New Weizmann research in bats and published in Science has identified ‘social place cells’ in the brain that respond to the locations of others in the spatial environment, revealing a sub-population...
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28 December 2017 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Weizmann Australia’s newest board member, Mr Bernard Stang, had his first Weizmann Campus experience when he attended the International Board Meeting in November. Mr Stang is a leading Australian businessman...
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15 December 2017 | Weizmann in Israel
Global efforts to eradicate malaria are dependent on scientists’ ability to outsmart the malaria parasite and a new study suggests a possible defence in the battle against this disease. Plasmodium...
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