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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
People
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
People
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
Environment
People
  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
People
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...
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's, and Niemann-Pick disease, for instance....
Research Centers

Research Centers

02.09.2010
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science New York, NY
Buildings and Major Facilities

Buildings and Major Facilities

02.09.2010
Arison Neurobiology Building Arison Foundation Miami, FL Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Career Development Chairs

Career Development Chairs

01.09.2010
The Armour Family Career Development Chair of Cancer Research Greenwich, CT
This diagram is part of a proof that a certain class of algorithms cannot compute the determinant of a matrix in polynomial time. From the research of Prof. Ran Raz

Are There Limits to Computing?

30.08.2010
Math & Computer Science
Where is the dividing line between the possible and the impossible in computation?

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