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Forefront of Science

 

Life Sciences 
 
The bacterial lodgers in cancer cells may hinder or help treatment
Science cover

 

Chemistry
 
The marriage of matter and light is revealed through a dark state
(l-r) Prof. Gilad Haran, and Drs. Lothar Houben, Ora Bitton and Satyendra Nath Gupta

 

Space & Physics
 
An incredibly accurate clock planned by the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Israeli Space Agency and an Israeli company could be on its way to Neptune’s largest moon in 2026
Artist's illustration of Neptune seen from beyond Triton. NASA

 

Life Sciences 
 
Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

(l-r) Drs. Sagit Meir, Elisa Korenblum, Yonghui Dong, Ilana Rogachev, Adam Jozwiak and Prof. Asaph Aharoni

 

Life Sciences 
 
A new model of autoimmune disease may solve some great outstanding riddles, including what causes T cells to attack and why only certain organs get them
Single-organ autoimmune diseases attack particular organs, eg., the thyroid, adrenals and beta cells in the pancreas

 

Life Sciences

Making copies of existing antibodies could be fast track to treatment
A niche within a lymph node in which antibody-forming cells are generated

 

Life Sciences 
 
An international initiative aims to identify compounds that target a key enzyme in the virus's life cycle
Israeli-American-British Labs and Biotech Partner to Speed Coronavirus Drug Development

 


A milestone in relations between the two institutes could advance a cure
Prof. Irit Sagi, Weizmann Institute of Science Vice President for Technology Transfer

 

Technology Transfer

 


Orchard Innovations is a new joint venture that aims to advance the translation of scientific discovery to the healthcare market
A Faster Path from the Lab Bench to the Clinic

 


The technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science has registered over 2,200 families of patents – 15,000 patents altogether, around the world
YEDA 2020: A reason to celebrate

 

Spotlight on Weizmann Alumnus

 


An animated video on the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by Weizmann Institute Alumni Dr. Nitai Steinberg won Student Prize in the World Health Organization’s inaugural Health for All Film Festival
Here Comes the Bacteria

 

Science Education

 


A high-school competition final event and graduate classes required the development of special platforms
Milk Mania – second place, by Alon Parson, Erez Parson, and Ma’ayan Shiri of the Leo Beck High School in Haifa, teacher, Dana Dickenson

 

In The News

 

Newsweek


Newsweek

 

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A lack of testing has spurred efforts to tap other data sources, ranging from medical records to real-time temperature readings

The Wall Street Journal

 

Science for All - Davidson Institute of Science Education

 


Is the composition of living things similar to that of their surroundings? And why aren’t we made mostly of metals?
The Matter of Life

 

 

 

 

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