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Remarkable Protein May Unlock Future Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases

By Pesach Benson / TPS

A chance discovery by a team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science sheds new light on regeneration in the nervous system and opens up exciting possibilities for combatting diseases.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Science and Tech

NASA to Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope in 2026

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Israel’s first space telescope, ULTRASAT, will be launched by NASA into high Earth orbit in 2026.

Israel / Science and Tech

Israeli Scientists Discover Supernova Explosion of Wolf-Rayet Star

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Such stars are those missing one or more of their external and generally lighter layers, and instead have outer layers made up of helium, carbon or other heavier elements.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Weizmann Institute to Offer Off-the-Shelf Cancer Immunotherapies

By Jewish Press News Desk

Off-the-shelf therapies to be developed for entire groups of patients, making cancer immunotherapy more accessible.

Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. Ranks 90th Out of World’s Top 100 Universities, No. 1 in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Three Israeli academic institutions—HU, Technion, and Weizman—are the only Middle-Eastern higher education institutions in the top 100.

Israel / Archaeology

Ancient Technology: Israeli Research Finds Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Israeli team found that early humans may have had a good understanding of the effects of heating the stone before flaking it into blades, and they may have used different temperatures to create different types of tools.

Israel / On Campus / Education / Gulf States / UAE

Emirati University, Israel’s Weizmann Institute to Collaborate on Artificial Intelligence Research

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Dr. Al Jaber stated that welcomed the opportunity to “collaborate with such a renowned establishment as the Weizmann Institute of Science.”

Israel / US / Science and Tech

Israel Team Aims for Neptune’s Moon with Trident Project

By Brian Blum

The Weizmann Institute’s project is one of four selected by NASA for potential launch in 2026.

Featured / Science and Tech

Israeli Tech Consortium to Use Artificial Intelligence in Genome Editing

By Jewish Press News Desk

“The CRISPR-IL consortium will enable Israeli industry to be at the forefront of genome editing worldwide."

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Israeli Researchers Develop ‘Decoy Molecule’ to Neutralize Viruses Passing From Animals to Humans

By Arye Green / TPS

The researchers found the molecule to be highly effective at sticking strongly to the viruses before these viruses could bind to the human receptors. It also activated the body’s immune response

Israel / The Environment / Science and Tech

On the Way to Green Fuels? Israeli Scientists Grow CO2 Consuming Bacteria

By Arye Green / TPS

Israeli scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed bacteria that survives solely on carbon dioxide (CO2) from their surroundings, instead of their regular food.

Headline / Politics / UK / Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Israeli Academic Leading Call to Boycott Ariel University Conference

By JNi.Media

"If the academic code of ethics was created for any purpose at all, it was to combat academic boycotts of Israel."

Featured / Israel / Travel / Science and Tech

Israel Launching Moon Mission This December

By JNi.Media

First Israeli lunar spacecraft set to land on moon Feb. 13, 2019, making Israel fourth country to reach Earth's satellite.

Israel / US / Global / Business and Economy / Media / Science and Tech

SodaStream Reveals April Fools' Day Prank With Paris Hilton

By JNi.Media

A SodaStream enthusiast herself, Hilton was chosen the perfect ambassador for the campaign.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Weizmann Institute Professors Launch Course Helps Women Juggle Science and Motherhood

By JNi.Media

“Why don’t we give them the benefit of our own experience? We all wished we had such a course when we were in that situation."

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Weizman Institute Revealing Secrets of Protective Coating of Wheat and Barley

By JNi.Media

In the future it may be possible to make use of the study’s findings to breed crops with a higher yield and a greater resistance to drought.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Weizmann Scientists Engineer Bacteria Making Sugar from Greenhouse Gas

By JNi.Media

The Institute scientists inserted the metabolic pathway for carbon fixation and sugar production into the bacterium E. coli, a known “consumer” organism that eats sugar and releases carbon dioxide.

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute Drug Approved for Prostate Cancer Therapy in Mexico

By JNi.Media

A successful Phase III clinical trial confirmed the high rate of local cures, minimal side effects and maintenance of overall quality of life.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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