Briefs Blavatnik awards recognize Weizmann trailblazers Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, an annual prize awarded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Setting sail for science When the journal Science devoted a special issue to the renowned Tara ocean expedition a year ago, it declared: “The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, and yet we know very little about it.” Date: June 16, 2016
Features Lessons from an orphan disease Faulty metabolic “pathways”—a cascade of chemical reactions in the body’s cells—are often the cause of rare diseases, and it turns out that cancer often hijacks these pathways as it spreads. Date: December 27, 2015
