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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 highly saline water of the Dead Sea. Among the...

Prof. Emeritus Moshe Feldman

Genetically Modified Wheat

12.09.2010

Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Emeritus Moshe Feldman developed innovative chromosomal engineering techniques and used them to transfer desired genes from wild emmer wheat into cultivated wheat.

Prof. Jonathan Gressel

Battling Parasitic Weeds

12.09.2010

Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Jonathan Gressel developed herbicide resistance methods for battling parasitic weeds such as witchweeds and broomrapes, which ravage grain and legume crops in several parts of the world,...

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 new technique, called 3TP, that produces an image...

Profs. Ruth Arnon

Profs. Ruth Arnon

08.09.2010

Benefiting Humanity

In the late 1960s, Institute scientists Profs. Ruth Arnon and Michael Sela and Dr. Dvora Teitelbaum synthesized several molecules known as copolymers. They were hoping to create an animal model for...

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 interferon-beta gene and designed several methods for...

Abraham Dines

On Campus

02.09.2010

He came to the Weizmann Institute in 1960. Abraham Dines, Head of the Construction and Physical Plant Maintenance Division.

Dr. Igor Lubomirsky

When "Miniature" Becomes "Different"

02.09.2010

Materials Science

The fields of microelectronics and satellite communications eagerly await new and more efficient materials that may one day be developed based on the insights gained in research of this kind.

Prof. Brian Berkowitz

Water from a Rock

02.09.2010

Using mathematical models, scientists hope to accurately predict the behavior of the largest readily available freshwater source on earth: groundwater.

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 Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems...

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