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Former 'Village Fool' Takes the Prize
Former 'Village Fool' Takes the Prize

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Mar 08, 2008... When she mounted the podium of the sumptuous hall at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris to receive her $100,000 prize on Thursday, Weizmann Institute of Science Pro ... Read more

TAGS: Awards, Advancing Women in Science, Bacteria, Philanthropy, Proteins

Weizmann Institute's Mathematical Model May Lead to Safer Chemotherapy
Weizmann Institute's Mathematical Model May Lead to Safer Chemotherapy

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Sep 14, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 14, 2012—Cancer chemotherapy can be a life-saver, but it is fraught with severe side effects, among them an increased risk of infectio ... Read more

TAGS: Medicine, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Bacteria, Mathematics

Science Tips, September 2015
Science Tips, September 2015

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Sep 01, 2015... Tiny sea sapphires’ iridescence, created by a regular array of thin, transparent crystal plates, is also the secret of their “disappearance”
Tiny ocean cre ... Read more

TAGS: Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Evolution, Immune system, Bacteria, Optics, Nanoscience

"Trained" bacteria can lead to better biofuels
"Trained" bacteria can lead to better biofuels

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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

TAGS: Biology, Molecular genetics, Evolution, Bacteria, Biofuel

Blood Sugar Levels in Response to Foods Are Highly Individual
Blood Sugar Levels in Response to Foods Are Highly Individual

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Nov 19, 2015... The research was featured on the cover of the journal Cell
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 19, 2015—Which is more likely to raise blood sugar levels: sushi or ice ... Read more

TAGS: Culture, Biochemistry, Bacteria, Nutrition, Mathematics, Diabetes

How Jetlag Disrupts the Ticks of Your Microbial Clock
How Jetlag Disrupts the Ticks of Your Microbial Clock

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Oct 22, 2014... The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali.
Your genome is the same right now as it was yesterday, last week, last year, or the day you were born. But you ... Read more

TAGS: Biochemistry, Biology, Immune system, Bacteria

Artificial Sweeteners May Disrupt Body's Blood Sugar Controls
Artificial Sweeteners May Disrupt Body's Blood Sugar Controls

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Sep 17, 2014... Sweeteners alter the microbiome, the population of bacteria that is in the digestive system. Weizmann Institute of Science
Artificial sweeteners may disrup ... Read more

TAGS: Biology, Immune system, Bacteria, Nutrition, Metabolism

Yale Participates in International Metabolic Research Alliance
Yale Participates in International Metabolic Research Alliance

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Nov 15, 2016... Yanna Lee
Yale researchers have partnered with scientists at the Jackson Laboratory, the University of Connecticut and the Weizmann Institute of Science in ... Read more

TAGS: Immune system, Bacteria, Diabetes, Metabolism

Germs, Humans, and Numbers
Germs, Humans, and Numbers

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Jan 28, 2016... How many microbes inhabit our body on a regular basis? For the last few decades, the most commonly accepted estimate in the scientific world puts that number at ... Read more

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Weizmann Institute Scientist Among Recipients of L'OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
Weizmann Institute Scientist Among Recipients of L'OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science

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Dec 19, 2007... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 19, 2007—Prof. Ada Yonath of the Department of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is among fiv ... Read more

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