Q&A with Prof. Alon Chen
A lively conversation with the Weizmann Institute's incoming President Q&A DATE: OCTOBER 23, 2019 Prof. Alon Chen Prof. Alon Chen enters office as the next President of the Weizmann Institute on December 1. A world-renowned neuroscientist with a focus on stress,...
Passing the torch: Q&A with President Prof. Daniel Zajfman
DATE: OCTOBER 23, 2019 Prof. Daniel Zajfman Prof. Daniel Zajfman The new Nature survey, in which Weizmann was ranked #2 in research quality, indicates that the ‘Weizmann recipe’ is a good one: small but serious institutions are highly effective. What are the...
Neurobiology News
Three papers by Weizmann Institute of Science neuroscientists are slated to appear in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience. 12.11.2019 Our emotions play a central role in learning and memory, and they enable survival in a dynamic environment. Tamar...
An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure
A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs 06.11.2019 Computer-enhanced MRI images of the brains of left-handed women found two that were missing olfactory bulbs Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory...
Five papers in one week published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlight Weizmann Institute research
5 in PNAS 24.10.2019 1 – An investigation into the way that double-stranded DNA unwinds for replication, repair or transcription, coauthored by Prof. Yaakov Levy of the Structural Biology Department, together with researchers in Italy, the UK and Spain. By combining...
Ebola Antibodies at Work
Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the disease 07.10.2019 The glycoprotein spike complex of the Ebola virus bound by a neutralizing antibody isolated from a vaccinated...
The Basic Bacterial Defense
A newly-discovered immune system in bacteria is the distance ancestor of one in our own cell 26.09.2019 E coli with and without active CBASS defenses against viral infection. Between 40 min. and and hour, those with active systems (l) committed suicide; while after an...
Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes
Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumors prevents effective immune responses 12.09.2019 Diversity – at least among cancer cells – is not a good thing. Weizmann Institute of Science research shows that in melanoma, tumors with cells...
Firework Memories
Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a neuronal mechanism central to human free recal 15.08.2019 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...
Mistaken but Not Always Wrong: Protein Errors Are under Control
Mapping where these errors occur was a feat they said couldn't be done. It turns out many are not random 01.08.2019 Getting a fix on when and where mistakes occur in the cellular manufacture of proteins is so challenging that a researcher in the United States once...