Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Prof. Ada Yonath

Scientists Uncover the Exact Mode of Action of Five Antibiotic Drugs

01.05.2002

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

Scientists Uncover the Exact Mode of Action of Five Antibiotic Drugs

Prof. Joel Sussman, Prof. Ephraim Katzir, Prof. Sara Fuchs, Prof. Mati Fridkin. Top: Dr. Michal Harel, Dr. Moshe Balass, Dr. Tali Scherf, Dr. Roni Kasher

Biting Truths

01.05.2002

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

Catching a snake toxin in the act may yield a host of medical applications

Prof. Irun Cohen.

Blocking Type 1 Diabetes

01.05.2002

Nutrition, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists develop the first successful vaccine for Type 1 diabetes

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...

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