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His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (l) and Weizmann Institute of Science President Prof. Alon Chen signed the MoU in a virtual ceremony

 


The virtual signing ceremony will be followed by a visit of an Israeli delegation to the UAE

 

Forefront of Science

 

 

fMRI images showing the hypothalamus reactions to body odor

   Life Sciences   

Understanding the connection could lead to a new search for the causes of unexplained spontaneous miscarriage

 

(l-r) Shiri Dishon, Prof. Igor Lubomirsky, Leah Javitt, Dr. David Ehre, Prof. Meir Lahav and Dr. Sofia Curland

   Chemistry   

Experiments on water freezing in the presence of an electric charge may help improve cloud seeding and lead to other practical applications

 

Profiling the COVID-19 Coronavirus

   Life Sciences   

A new approach to understanding the virus may lead to better diagnostics and treatment

 

(l-r) Dr. Prashant D. Sonawane, Dr. Sayantan Panda, Dr. Adam Jozwiak, Prof. Asaph Aharoni and Dr. Tali Scherf

   Life Sciences   

A step in the biochemical pathway for soapy plant compounds comes from the “wrong” set of tools

 

Synthetic cells over several hours reveal protein combinations that coalesce into droplets

   Chemistry   

Synthetic cells reveal the secrets of protein affinity in living cells

 

Viruses like the phages in the upper right specialize in infecting bacteria

   Life Sciences   

Virus-fighting viperins, part of the human immune system, turn out to have bacterial counterparts that might boost the fight against human disease

 

Prof. Tsvee Lapidot and Dr. Eman Khatib-Massalha

   Life Sciences   

Lactate, thought to be a byproduct of cell respiration, plays a central role in the potentially lethal immune reaction

 

Potential Heart-Repair Protein Advances to a New Stage

   Life Sciences   

Pre-clinical studies suggest a protein, Agrin, could limit scarring and promote natural repair mechanisms after a heart attack

 

Micro-CT scans reveal that silencing the Piezo2 gene in proprioceptive neurons leads to distortions in the mouse hip joint (right) compared with the hip joint of intact mice (left)

   Life Sciences   

The findings point to a surprising origin for scoliosis and hip dysplasia

 

Yarbus’s experiment

   Life Sciences   

Comparing whisking motion in free-roaming and immobilized rats reveals key differences

 

People and Events

 

 

Feinberg Graduate School graduates
"You have tools from the frontier of human knowledge that will enable you to contribute to improving the situation"

 

From Around the Web

 

 

The New Yorker
   The New Yorker   

Designer proteins could help us build new materials, clean up the environment, and even fight COVID-19

 

Nature
   Nature   

Space, water, food security and archaeology present opportunities for joint research as United Arab Emirates and Bahrain end boycott of Israel

 

Quanta Magazine
   Quanta Magazine   

New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue

 

A Window to the Campus

 

 

video

 

 

From a Mountain of Sand to a Flourishing Garden 

In the fourth episode of "A Window to the Campus," learn about Dr. Chaim Weizmann's vision of creating a campus that rivals some of the most beautiful campuses in the world, and how Prof. Asaph Aharoni is taking advantage of these gardens for his research

 

 

 

 

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