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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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Jan 27, 2014... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 27, 2014—Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it ... Read more
Jan 16, 2013...
What do you see as the Weizmann Institute of Science’s main aims and objectives?
The Weizmann Institute of Science has two aims. The first is to educate th ... Read more
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Mar 23, 2016... Population growth and rising standards of living worldwide are driving a rapid increase in demand for energy. In fact, says Prof. David Cahen of the Weizmann In ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/a-deep-dive-to-retrieve-and-fortify-memories/
Mar 08, 2011... For years scientists have dreamed of developing a genuine memory booster, a drug that could tune the brain's biological search engine so that it's better at ret ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/how-malaria-tricks-the-immune-system/
Dec 07, 2017... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 7, 2017— Global efforts to eradicate malaria are crucially dependent on scientists’ ability to outsmart the malaria parasite. And Plasm ... Read more
Jan 06, 2011... When we cry, we may be doing more than expressing emotion. Our tears, according to striking new research, may be sending chemical signals that influence the beh ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/signs-of-aging-even-in-the-embryo/
Nov 21, 2013... A mouse embryo that has been stained in blue to show the areas where senescent cells, which simply stop dividing, occur even during fetal development. Clockwise ... Read more
Jul 25, 2018...
The endangered Red Panda has a wild population of less than 10,000 mature individuals Image: REUTERS/Rebecca Naden
Most of us, including scientists, are bl ... Read more
Jul 01, 2002... Rehovot, Israel—July 1, 2002—Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers' fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking result ... Read more
Apr 27, 2020... On May 2, 1986, while visiting my long-term colleague and friend Richard O’Reilly, the head of bone marrow transplantation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ce ... Read more
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