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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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Nov 25, 2013... Chromosomes — the 46 tightly wrapped packages of genetic material in our cells — are iconically depicted as X-shaped formations. However, those neat X’s only ap ... Read more
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Mar 28, 2017... It was late 2005, and Dr. Ofer Yizhar was busily conducting neurobiology research at Tel Aviv University for his doctorate, unaware that his life plans were abo ... Read more
Mar 30, 2014...
Prof. Edna Mozes. Photo: WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
There are a number of potentially devastating disorders much more common to one gender than the othe ... Read more
Sep 17, 2018... September is both Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S., where prostate cancer is the most common cancer (after skin ca ... Read more
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Mar 18, 2013... For years, scientists around the world have dreamed of building a complete, functional, artificial cell. Though this vision is still a distant blur on the horiz ... Read more
Jul 13, 2013... Kertesz. 'Israel has an abundance of talent and motivation, but not of biotech investments. [Biotech] requires tens of millions of dollars and years of developm ... Read more
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Oct 25, 2017...
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Jan van Deursen was baffled by the decrepit-looking transgenic mice he created in 2000. Instead of developing tumours as expected, t ... Read more
Dec 24, 2014... An "embryoid" at the start of the appearance of Sox17 positive cells (green cells), which depict the birth of the human germ cell lineage. (Walfred Tang / Unive ... Read more
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Jan 25, 2018...
Bacteria like these have numerous defenses against the phages (dots) that infect them
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 25, 2018— Until a decade ago, scientists were ... Read more
Oct 11, 2011... “What I find most amazing about plants is that they’re a great source for thousands and thousands of chemicals,” says Dr. Asaph Aharoni of the Weizmann Institut ... Read more
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