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(l-r) Drs. Olga Davydov and Nardy Lampl, Prof. Robert Fluhr, Drs. Ofra Budai-Hadrian and Thomas Roberts. Secrets to growth

Keeping Pace with the World’s Food Demand

21.03.2011
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture
Understanding plants’ survival systems could help reduce agricultural losses. 
A developing eye of the fruit fly (left) is connected by the optic stalk to the optic lobe in the fly’s brain

Take the Axon Train

14.03.2011
Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics
Institute scientists discover an entirely new form of transportation inside nerve cells
Dr. Karina Yaniv. New growth

Fat Chance for Health

07.03.2011
Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development, Genetics
Dr. Karina Yaniv is overturning accepted theories on blood and lymph vessel formation.
(l-r) Standing: Sharon Kredo, Dr. Tali Melkman Zehavi, Roni Oren. Sitting: Dr. Eran Hornstein, Natali Rivkin, Amitai Mandelbaum

Micro Control for Insulin

17.02.2011
Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics
A newly discovered step in insulin production could give researchers new tools to deal with diabetes
RiPS (RNA-induced pluripotent stem) cells grow long, nerve-cell-like extensions when moved to a new substrate

A New Way to Reprogram Cells

01.02.2011
Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
A new finding might help bring the medical use of stem cells one small step closer to reality
Prof. Leo Sachs

Boosting Production of White Blood Cells

12.09.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1960s, Prof. Leo Sachs developed the first ever procedure to grow, clone and induce the development of different types of normal blood cells...
Prof. Leo Sachs

Reversing Malignancy

12.09.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to show that cancer cells – in tissue cultures and in living organisms – can be made to revert to normal behavior.
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...
(l-r) Dr. Perry Stambolsky and Profs. Varda Rotter and Moshe Oren

p53 Turns Thirty

01.05.2010
Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics
Weizmann scientists celebrate three decades of research into the p53 tumor supressor research  
Darwin’s Finch and the Evolution of Smell

Darwin’s Finch and the Evolution of Smell

06.04.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics
Sequenced zebra finch genome hints that smell may play a role in the birds’ communication  

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