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illustration: Separating molecules with light

Light Lends a Hand

01.10.2002

Nanoscience, Materials Science

From industrial processes to tiny pens, can light make electrons dance the quickstep?

Prof. Gideon Berke.

Cancer Fights Back

01.10.2002

Cancer, Immunology

Sometimes the good guys turn against their comrades in arms

Letters to the Genetic Editor

Letters to the Genetic Editor

01.10.2002

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Organic Chemistry

What makes editors in the cell tick?

Bill Davidson (right), visiting the Institute, with Dr. Yehuda Ben-Hur, Managing director of the Davidson Institute (center), and Dr. Oved Kedem, Director of Educational Projects (left)

Priority: Science Education

01.10.2002

People and Events, Science Education

Bill Davidson, long-time Institute friend, is establishing an Institute for Science Education on campus

Dr. Elazar Tzadok

Science in the service of the police

01.10.2002

Made at the Institute

Dr. Elazar Tzadok, Director of the Identification and Forensic Science Division of the Israel Police, learned his "CSI" skills at the Institute

Ahuva Mirelman. Fire and Light

Water, Darkness, Fire, and Light

01.10.2002

Science & Culture

Ahuva Mirelman's paintings reflect intense feelings

Nathalie Moyal Amsellem, Shahar Molshansky, Arnaud Amzallag, Sophie Snaper, and Oshrat Perets. A helping hand

The Volunteering Spirit

01.10.2002

Science & Culture

Students take action to feed the needy

Prof. Ronen Basri

The Ninth Dimension

01.09.2002

Computer Vision

Prof. Ronen Basri of the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department seeks to improve the vision of computers – in particular, their ability to recognize objects...

Kenyan farmer with corn plant stunted by Striga (witchweed) in foreground and corn with seed coating technology to the right and in the background.

New Witchweed-Fighting Method, Developed by CIMMYT and a Weizmann Institute Scientist, To Become Public in July

01.07.2002

Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers’ fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking results in long-term trials of an innovative witchweed-fighting technology.

Bone Marrow Transplants May be Improved Due to the Uncovering of a Key Mechanism Responsible for Stem Cell Mobilization

Bone Marrow Transplants May be Improved Due to the Uncovering of a Key Mechanism Responsible for Stem Cell Mobilization

30.06.2002

Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a mechanism that enables stem cells to exit the bone marrow into the blood circulation of healthy donors as well as patients suffering from leukemia,...

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