Life Sciences

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. David Givol

Antibody Fragment Used in Genetic Engineering Techniques

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. David Givol spent a significant part of his career investigating the structure-function relationship of antibodies. He identified the smallest...

Prof. Leo Sachs

Amniocentesis

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to use cells from the amniotic fluid surrounding the human fetus for diagnostic purposes. The procedure later became...

Prof. Mordhay Avron

Food Supplements

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Mordhay Avron isolated and investigated the single-cell alga, Dunaliella, which is able to survive in extremely harsh surroundings, such as the...

Prof. Hadassa Degani

3TP Method for Detection of Breast and Prostate Cancer

08.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Hadassa Degani studied the mechanisms that supply cancerous tumors with oxygen and nutrients. Using magnetic resonance imaging, she developed a...

Prof. Michel Revel

Beta interferon drug for Multiple Sclerosis

08.09.2010

Genetics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Michel Revel spent more than 30 years studying interferons, which play a key role in the immune system. In the late 1970s, he isolated the...

Dr. Naama Barkai

Cell Destiny

02.09.2010

Space & Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

The term "biological computer" seems to turn up in any discussion of possible future inventions. But Dr. Naama Barkai of the Weizmann Institute's...

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.

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