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STORIES AND DISCOVERIES FROM THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
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  • Features

    The path forward

    A beautiful meadow near the Weizmann Institute campus in Rehovot, is the place where Prof. Ron Milo goes to think, relax, and draw inspiration. He wonders, “Will my daughters be able to enjoy this meadow in the same way? Will we all be able to enjoy all that nature provides in 10 years?”

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Teaching outside the box

    Three years ago, the Davidson Institute of Science Education—the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science—embarked on an ambitious overhaul of its iconic open-air museum, the Clore Garden of Science.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Features

    Moving earth and sea

    Yotam Berkowitz was a strong, healthy 20-something, finished with his compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces, physics degree in hand and with plans to pursue an entrepreneurial career, when he suddenly began to suffer from kidney stones.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments the CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a previously unseen rate. (Image from the Fleishman lab)

    Briefs

    Building enzymes with AI

    New computational method is a major step in sustainable chemistry

    Date: July 10, 2023

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  • Photo credit: Brandon Tigrett

    People behind the science

    Nurturing the future

    Members of the Weizmann community often describe the campus as a kind of kibbutz. Indeed, it is the unique feeling of community at the Weizmann Institute that brings so many brilliant, passionate minds together. Thanks to Dan and Evelyn Simon, longtime friends of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, a new wellness complex on campus will be a hub of health and camaraderie that will plant seeds of collaboration and innovation for years to come.

     

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • People behind the science

    The power of the sun

    Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel Yehuda and Dita Bronicki say their relationship with Weizmann originated from the conviction that industry has much to gain from cooperating with research institutions and that research institutions can benefit from cooperation with industry.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Prof. Michael Sela

    This spring marks one year since the passing of Prof. Michael Sela, the sixth President of the Weizmann Institute, who was one of the founding fathers of biomedical research in Israel and an international leader in the fields of immunology and drug discovery. To this day, the impact of Prof. Sela’s scientific achievements and institutional leadership are evident in every corner of the Weizmann campus.

    Date: July 12, 2023

  • Briefs

    AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

    Date: July 12, 2023

  • Dr. Manas Seal and Prof. Daniella Goldfarb

    Briefs

    Life’s mysteries in a droplet

    How did small segments of proteins floating in the primordial soup evolve into the complex protein
    molecules we know today?

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    The brains from Brazil

    The Brazilian Association of Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science, under the leadership of President Mario Fleck, has undertaken a major endeavor to support the construction of the building to house Weizmann’s neuroscience flagship initiative, the Azrieli Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Lift off

    The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration is set to launch Israel’s first space telescope—the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, orULTRASAT, designed by Weizmann astrophysicists—into high-Earth orbit in early 2026

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Making the impossible possible

    Dr. Ora Simcha Bitton Israel and her team are revolutionizing the way resources reach Weizmann scientists

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Chiral encounters

    Will an electron escaping a molecule through a quantum tunnel
    behave differently depending on its inherent asymmetry?

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Cracking the neural code

    The Weizmann Institute is excited to announce a pledge from longtime friend David Lopatie to establish the David Lopatie Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience—a pillar of the Azrieli Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences. The new Lopatie Center will advance efforts to unravel the basic principles of nerve cell communication and crack the underlying neural code.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Features

    The optimistic inventor

    “I have been building things for as long as I can remember myself,” says Dan Gelbart, a German-born, Israel-raised, and―since 1973―Canada-based inventor.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Zebrafish larvae as seen under a microscope.

    Briefs

    The science of stress resilience

    Our ability to handle stressful situations may come down to genetics

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Putting energy into physics

    The Weizmann Institute was recently gifted an endowment by Milvia Perinot and the Fondazione Henry Krenter toward a new research center within the Frontiers of the Universe flagship: the Krenter-Perinot Center for High-Energy Particle Physics.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    The Artificial Intelligence Hub

    A ‘computational clubhouse’ for AI and science

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Alumni

    FOOD TECH on the menu

    Weizmann alumni are making their mark on Israel’s thriving food-tech sector—boosting nutritional value and finding alternative, sustainable food sources

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    Mining Big Data for biomedical gold

    Big Data―the massive amounts of information created by modern digital technologies―has changed the way we manage, analyze, and leverage what we know. This is particularly true in healthcare, where the Big Data methods used in Weizmann labs are having a transformative impact on clinical practice.

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • Briefs

    9 years, 3 degrees, and a family

    Date: July 11, 2023

  • C. elegans, a model organism for research, is about 1mm in length. (Image from the Oren-Suissa lab)

    Briefs

    Brain circuits and behavior

    Flipping a single synaptic connection in a neural circuit
    prompts male worms to behave like female worms

    Date: July 10, 2023

  • Briefs

    The bright side of Earth

    Why do our hemispheres look equally bright from space?

    Date: July 10, 2023

  • Briefs

    What all the best-dressed proteins are wearing

    A new computational method that tracks multiple protein modifications
    promises to shed new light on unsolved biomedical problems

    Date: July 10, 2023

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