Videos of forming embryonic blood vessels reveal the presence of unusual cells and the unexpected role of a well-known gene in creating blood 14.08.2017 The early heart tube of a chick embryo: Cardiac and endothelial cells are made visible by specifically expressing...

The Nature Index of Innovation 2017 points industry to institutions providing ideas behind inventions 09.08.2017 Weizmann Institute of Science: We recruit scientists who are among the best in the world and let them follow their curiosity The Nature Index, 2017, of the...

Computer designed nanostructures do away with the need for multiple lenses 07.08.2017 Lenses made of gold (left), silver (center) and aluminum (right) nanoparticles. Each layer of the lens focuses light of a different color, each to the same point. Scale: 35 μm The...

Understanding how the bacteria gets around a common drug may help develop new ones to combat a growing threat 03.08.2017 A cross section of the large subunit of a bacterial ribosome. Yellow: the ribosome’s protein exit tunnel. Red: the binding pocket for erythromycin...

An Institute study finds a whole new role for one of the most famous proteins in cancer research 31.07.2017 Colonies of mouse embryonic stem cells, viewed with a microscope: the cells differentiated properly when their genome contained an intact copy of the p53 gene...

How will we know if we can trust machine-written software? A Weizmann alumnus is showing how to test such systems reliably 24.07.2017 Crash-avoidance systems: What constitutes a reliable test? Our lives might depend on the ability to check the math of our machines....

Microfluidics technology enables silk protein capsules to self-assemble 20.07.2017 A silkworm viewed with an infrared camera. The pale elongated cavity is the silk gland. © 2017 Natural Materials Group Scientists have managed to design microscopic silk capsules that...

Prof. David Wallach and his group reveal a protein that can kill a cell or save it 12.07.2017 Left: Proteins slated for destruction or removal from the cell are temporarily contained in small vesicles within a multivesicular body (the large circular structure in the...

Understanding the properties of these new materials will help advance new photoelectric technologies 13.07.2017 Perovskite before (top) and after (bottom) etching. Etching with acetone revealed a fingerprint of ferroelectricity in halide perovskite materials:...

How does attention direct the subconscious actions of our sensory organs? 10.07.2017 (l-r) Prof. David Harel, Tess Oram, Dr. Dana Sherman and Prof. Ehud Ahissar are paying attention to the ways our conscious and subconscious brain regions interact Many of us have had...