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Structure of GroEL, a barrel-shaped molecular machine found in bacterial cells that helps proteins fold; from the lab of Profs. Gilad Haran and Amnon Horowitz

How Can We Get to Know a Single Photon, Atom or Molecule?

30.08.2010

Space & Physics, Nanoscience

The role of solitary molecules in electronics is likely to grow as the size of components continues to shrink

Scanning electron microscope image of a sea urchin spine undergoing repair after breakage.

Can Biology Teach Us to Design Better Materials?

30.08.2010

Materials Science

Scientists look to biology to learn how living organisms create the amazing variety of forms and substances found in nature, and to apply these lessons to completely new kinds of materials

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 of approaches to researching proteins

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.

Lymphatic system of an adult zebrafish, from the lab of Dr. Karina Yaniv

How Does a Body Evolve from Two Cells?

30.08.2010

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development, Genetics

It has been called a mystery and a miracle. It is truly a process so complex that we’re just beginning to tease apart the series of events that produces a complete organism in a matter of days,...

Fluorescent microscope photo of mouse cortical nerve cells (neurons) in culture infected with lentiviruses that express green fluorescent protein. From the lab of Dr. Alon Chen

How Does the Brain Take Shape?

30.08.2010

Brain & Behavior, Genetics

What genetic and neural mechanisms give rise to our personality? Which fine tune our sexual behavior? What code programs a mother’s love or our reaction to stress?

Supporting Committees

Supporting Committees

29.08.2010

The Weizmann Institute is assisted by a network of well-established international supporting committees that secure its future, provide essential resources for continuous development, and inform the...

Buildings and Major Facilities

Buildings and Major Facilities

29.08.2010

Arison Neurobiology BuildingArison Foundation

Residential Areas, Gardens and Courts

Residential Areas, Gardens and Courts

29.08.2010

William and Lynne Frankel House, Youth Village

Research Wings and Laboratories

Research Wings and Laboratories

29.08.2010

Morris L. and Celia B. Aaronson WingNew York, NY

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