Chemistry

Structure of GroEL, a barrel-shaped molecular machine found in bacterial cells that helps proteins fold; from the lab of Profs. Gilad Haran and Amnon Horowitz

How Can We Get to Know a Single Photon, Atom or Molecule?

30.08.2010

Space & Physics, Nanoscience

The role of solitary molecules in electronics is likely to grow as the size of components continues to shrink

Scanning electron microscope image of a sea urchin spine undergoing repair after breakage.

Can Biology Teach Us to Design Better Materials?

30.08.2010

Materials Science

Scientists look to biology to learn how living organisms create the amazing variety of forms and substances found in nature, and to apply...

(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. Igor Lubomirsky

Saving Up Sunshine

01.05.2010

Energy, Chemistry

A new approach could help save the sun's energy for a rainy day

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

01.05.2010

Prof. Ada Yonath awarded prize for revealing the structure of the ribosome

Distribution of skeletal proteins in an artificial membrane resembling a long bacteria: The spontaneous curvature of the proteins (purple) drives them to move together to form rings that coalesce, increasingly constricting the membrane

A Prize for Crossing Boundaries

01.05.2010

Space & Physics, Structural Biology

"Multidisciplinary research" takes on new meaning in one student's work

(l-r) Dan Bracha, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv, Dr. Shirley Daube and Dr. Amnon Buxboim. Close quarters Wall-free compartments might keep gene activities in order

Crowd Control

01.05.2010

Genetics, Nanoscience, Materials Science

Genes may work best in closely-packed, open compartments

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. Barak Dayan

Looking Forward for a future quantum technologies

01.11.2009

Quantum Physics, Chemistry

Dr. Barak Dayan: "I want to learn how to control single photons in the way we control electrons today. Once we can do that, the fields of...

Prof. Ada Yonath

Looking Forward to deciphering the secrets of protein manufacture

01.11.2009

Structural Biology

Prof. Ada Yonath: "Ribosomes are the essence of life. In the future, we would like to understand how the very first ribosomes came into being."

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