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Forefront of Science

 

Life Sciences

Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell), Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting is part of a series of Five Senses that Rembrandt painted in Leiden around 1625, when he was 19. It was discovered in 2015 in an art collection belonging to a family from New Jersey

 

Life Sciences 
 
This cellular factory-on-a-chip could be used to design, produce and test drugs against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Visual representation of the self-assembly process: Synthesis of proteins and ribosomal RNA from synthetic DNA strands attached to a chip leads to the self-assembly of a new ribosomal subunit on the surface of the chip

 

Fighting Coronavirus

 

Life Sciences 

Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a research platform for designing tiny antibodies that can halt the virus infection process
Prof. Sarel Fleishman. His research has already led to the design of a potential malaria vaccine, and he is now concentrating his efforts on the coronavirus

 

Life Sciences 

Weizmann Institute scientists have developed an online platform to help detect early signs of COVID-19
SmellTracker

 

Chemistry

Dr. Ron Diskin is working to develop a "decoy" molecule that would allow healthy cells to evade the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and to identify an antibody that can bind precisely to the virus and destroy it
The Ultimate Decoy and Antibodies in the Fight Against Coronavirus

 

People

 

The online teachers' room provides fertile ground for meetings, tutorials, collaborations and consultations on physics instruction
The online teachers' room in action

 

In The News

 

The New York Times

Scientists have persuaded Britons and Israelis to fill out questionnaires about their health, to get ahead of the coronavirus by getting resources to the right place. The U.S. is next
The New York Times

 

TIME

The mission showed the value of international medical cooperation in times of crisis, even when politics might make success seem impossible
Time

 

Science for All - Davidson Institute of Science Education

 


Microbiomes, big data, the Higgs boson, and brain-computer interface – these are only a few of the discoveries that made their mark in a decade of scientific revolutions which will – and are already – changing our lives
A Decade of Science

 


From chimpanzees to crows, from dolphins to octopi: Different species of animals use tools around the world. Why did this ability develop in only a few species, and why them?
The animal's tool box

 

 

 

 

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