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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.
Feb 20, 2018...
11 days of brain research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Israeli researchers have managed to grow tiny model brains in the lab to discover h ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-february-2009/
Feb 03, 2009... Even when our eyes are closed, the visual centers in our brain are humming with activity. Weizmann Institute scientists and others have shown in the last few ye ... Read more
Apr 11, 2007... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 11, 2007—Muscle fibers are large cells that contain many nuclei. They begin, like all animal cells, as naive embryonic cells. These cells ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-july-2012/
Jul 27, 2012... As sulfur cycles through Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land, it undergoes chemical changes that are often coupled to changes in other such elements as carbon a ... Read more
May 25, 2017... Prof. Yardena Samuels: Breakthroughs in Cancer Diagnosis Research ... Read more
Jun 26, 2008... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 26, 2008—More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations f ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/trained-bacteria-can-lead-to-better-biofuels/
Jun 05, 2009... Bacteria are not dumb. Israeli researchers have proven that these pathogens can anticipate a future event and prepare for it. The discovery - just published in ... Read more
Jun 19, 2014... According the World Health Organization, mood disorders such as depression affect some 10% of the world’s population and are associated with a heavy burden of d ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/outwitting-a-brainy-gene/
Apr 30, 2012... The very first in the series of mutations causing colon cancer occurs in the beta-catenin gene; this gene is abnormally activated in about 90 percent of colorec ... Read more
Apr 12, 2007... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 11, 2007—Muscle fibers are large cells that contain many nuclei. They begin, like all animal cells, as naive embryonic cells. These cells ... Read more
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