Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Prof. Gad Galili.

A Plant's Brainy Balancing Act

01.05.2002

Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

Plants can't think, but a gene that affects crop nutritional values has a counterpart in the human brain

Dr. Atan Gross.

Death of a Cell

01.05.2002

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

There is a fine line between life and death in the microscopic world of the cell

Left to right: Drs. Nili Avidan, Tzviya Olender and Edna Ben-Asher.

Heart Gene Hunt

01.05.2002

Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Scientists identify a gene causing a familial heart condition in a Bedouin community

Prof. Jacob Anglister.

Smoking Out a Decoy

01.05.2002

Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

Atomic-level NMR studies are helping reveal how HIV infects immune cells

Prof. Ada Yonath.

Antibiotics in Action

01.05.2002

Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

Uncovering the exact modes of action of five different antibiotics may help the design of better drugs in the future

Optic nerve fiber (orange) on background of neural network.

Battling Glaucoma

01.01.2002

Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

One in every hundred adults in the Western world suffers from chronic glaucoma, a disease that causes blindness. Prof. Michal Schwartz, ...

Dr. Michael Elbaum

Opening the Gates

01.01.2002

Space & Physics, Life Sciences, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Materials Science

Dr. Michael Elbaum of the Weizmann Institute’s Material and Interfaces Department studies the passage of molecules through the cell’s...

Structure of a retinal protein (purple) and its key co-worker (blue)

The Chemistry of Vision

01.01.2002

Particle Physics, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry

It was long believed that the rotation of the "retinal molecule" was the first stage in vision. However, Prof. Mordechai Sheves of the Weizmann...

Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Light Harvesting

01.01.2002

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Plants and Agriculture

Chlorophyll molecules have been selected by nature over billions of years of evolution to help plants and certain bacteria utilize sunlight to drive...

Israeli Scientists Block the Progression of Type I Diabetes

Israeli Scientists Block the Progression of Type I Diabetes

26.11.2001

Nutrition, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science has developed a unique approach for halting the progression of...

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