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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.
Sep 12, 2018...
T cells (red) attacking melanoma cells (green). The neo-antigen-specific T cells in this image are especially effective at killing cancer cells
REHOVOT, IS ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/news-releases/two-steps-ahead-of-the-coronavirus/
Mar 22, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 22, 2020—A method for monitoring, identifying, and predicting where the coronavirus will spread has attracted considerable international i ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/news-releases/the-importins-of-anxiety/
Dec 11, 2018... In genetically engineered mice lacking the protein importin alpha-5 (right), a molecule called MeCP2 (red), known to affect anxiety behaviors, stayed on the out ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/news-releases/lego-proteins-revealed/
Aug 20, 2017... Yeast cells producing a bacterial symmetric protein complex with eight units. When it is not mutated (left), the complex diffuses freely inside the cell, but a ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-march-2013/
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
Jan 22, 2020... Israeli scientists have discovered the effect of a gene in causing epilepsy and autism, which may lead to new therapies, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) ... Read more
Jan 13, 2020... A group of scientists led by a team from the Weizmann Institute of Science has devised a decoy molecule that could lead to the treatment of viruses that cross o ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/in-the-news/alien-arsenic-life-discredited/
Jan 02, 2013... Two years ago, at a press conference that drew wide attention, scientists described a newfound microbe in California’s Mono Lake that flouted life’s basic instr ... Read more
https://weizmann-v8.euwest01.umbraco.io/news-media/in-the-news/the-man-who-studies-deadly-diseases/
Dec 01, 2013...
Diskin’s specialty is using X-ray crystallography to image the proteins in viruses.
Ron Diskin, 37, is a world expert on the structural biology of deadly v ... Read more
Oct 07, 2009... October 7, 2009—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science congratulates Prof. Ada Yonath on receiving the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and ... Read more