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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
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Aug 22, 2018...
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Last October, Aviv Regev spoke to a gathering of international scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. For Regev, a computational ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-november-2014/
Nov 18, 2014... Satellite image of Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system at about three times the height of Mount Everest. Around 3.5 to 4 billion years ... Read more
Jun 02, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 2, 2020—Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria. That conclusion arises from a rigorous study of over 1,000 tumor samples of different h ... Read more
May 28, 2020... The first comprehensive survey of the microorganisms that live inside tumours has found that bacteria reside in those from many different cancer types, but it i ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/stopping-future-viral-threats-and-covid-19/
Jul 16, 2020... “Viruses can be ill-mannered guests,” says Dr. Noam Stern-Ginossar, “freely helping themselves to the host’s cell machinery and using it to make more viruses.” ... Read more
Aug 14, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 14, 2020—Something like a quarter of the world’s population suffers from chronic pain at some point. As opposed to acute pain – for examp ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/profiling-the-covid-19-coronavirus/
Sep 09, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 9, 2020—“Contact tracing” inside infected cells is providing new clues into the workings of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ... Read more
Sep 16, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 16, 2020—By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting off viral infection, a group at the Weizmann Institute ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/blog/in-celebration-of-crispr/
Oct 29, 2020... In February 2017, in Boston for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS’s) annual conference, The Curiosity Review snagged a chair in a ... Read more
Nov 05, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 5, 2020—Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria. Sinc ... Read more
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