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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 24, 2007...
Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover a Genetic Risk Factor for Smoking-linked Head and Neck Cancer
A simple blood test may be able to identify those mos ... Read more
Oct 13, 2015... Charred 10,000 year-old fava beans. An amount like that would have been extremely difficult to gather from wild plants, indicating the legume had been domestica ... Read more
Jan 07, 2016... A cluster of gold nanoparticles under a transmission electron microscope. Empty spaces between the nanoparticles can serve as nanoflasks, as suggested by the dr ... Read more
Jul 17, 2015...
Video: Shimmery sea sapphires disappear in a flash
Red and blue and green and violet and… Invisible. Sea sapphires have been described as “the most beautif ... Read more
Jul 10, 2013... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 10, 2013—When did people first begin to express their feelings with flowers? It turns out that in prehistoric times, Mount Carmel residents ... Read more
Dec 01, 2009... A bicycle accident and polar bears came together in one curious scientist’s mind, and became the catalyst for research that is changing the world.When Prof. Ada ... Read more
Mar 05, 2018...
A mouse, illustrative image. (photo credit: INGIMAGE)
It has been known that male rodents are allured by scent to the opposite sex. But now, researchers at ... Read more
Aug 23, 2017...
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Are you ready for violet-colored potatoes? How about orange tobacco? Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have ... Read more
Jan 09, 2007... NEW YORK, NY—January 9, 2007—Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Structural Biology was named as one of the winners of the pre ... Read more
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Sep 18, 2007... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 18, 2007—What makes one smell pleasant and another odious? Is there something in the chemistry of a substance that can serve to predic ... Read more