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Prof. Ephraim Katzir

Development of Synthetic Antigens

12.09.2010
Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1950s, Prof. Ephraim Katzir developed simple synthetic models, known as polyamino acids, that made it easier to study the properties of...
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Immobilized Enzymes Used in the Pharmaceutical Industry

12.09.2010
Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1960s, Prof. Ephraim Katzir developed a method for binding enzymes to a variety of insoluble carriers. Enzymes speed up many chemical...
Prof. Meir Wilchek

A Method for Separating Biological Materials

12.09.2010
Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Meir Wilchek developed a method called affinity chromatography for separating biological materials, such as enzymes, antibodies, hormones and...
Prof. Anthony (Tony) Futerman

A Fatal Excess

02.09.2010
Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior
The accumulation of too many lipids in a cell leads to a number of hereditary diseases that in particular afflict Ashkenazic Jews: Tay-Sachs, Gaucher...
Three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, serum paraoxonase (PON1), which has been mutated in the lab of Prof. Dan Tawfik through directed evolution to endow the enzyme with new functions

What Makes Proteins Tick?

30.08.2010
Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
From solving the structure of crystallized proteins to creating computer simulations of protein dynamics, Institute scientists employ a wide variety...
A pancreas containing two populations of cells. The red cells synthesize microRNAs while the green ones don’t. Image from the lab of Dr. Eran Hornstein

How do Tiny RNA Molecules Call the Shots?

30.08.2010
Biochemistry, Genetics
MicroRNAs may be a missing factor in a number of baffling diseases.
It All Depends

It All Depends

16.08.2010
Biochemistry, Genetics
"Helper" proteins can make the difference between a disastrous mutation and one that might even be an improvement
(l-r) Dan Bracha, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv, Dr. Shirley Daube and Dr. Amnon Buxboim. Close quarters

Crowd Control

08.08.2010
Biochemistry, Genetics, Nanoscience, Materials Science
Weizmann Institute scientists provide new tools to realistically manipulate genes in lab experiments.  It might prove to be an essential step...
Prof. Daniella Goldfarb

Looking Forward to improved methods for probing enzyme activity

01.11.2009
Biochemistry, Chemistry
Prof. Daniella Goldfarb: "My dream is to develop EPR methods that can reveal enzymatic activities occurring in short (millisecond) time scales...
Dr. Michal Sharon

Looking Forward to unprecedented insight into cellular mechanics

01.11.2009
Biochemistry
Dr. Michal Sharon: "Today, our mass spectrometry approach is limited to bacteria and yeast. In the future, we aim to be able to apply this...

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