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Dr. Abraham Zangen. Rewarding research

A Beautiful Magnetic Mind

01.05.2005

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The brain’s “reward centers” yield insights into treating addiction and depression

Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar. Stability in chaos

Billiard Ball Math

01.05.2005

Space & Physics, Mathematics

Where can chaos coexist with islands of stability?

(l-r) Prof. Irun Cohen and Prof. Eytan Domany. Profiling the immune system

Battle Hymn of the Immune System

01.05.2005

Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

An immunologist and a physicist team up to reveal the "fingerprints" of autoimmune disease

A view of the spliceosome showing internal details

Splice of Life

01.05.2005

Biochemistry, Genetics, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

Scientists reveal the structure of a cellular machine that pieces together bits of gene code

Slow Release

Slow Release

01.05.2005

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry, Yeda Technology Transfer

"Chains" that fall away slowly could lead to new time-release drugs

Dr. Omer Reingold. Memory saver

A-mazing Algorithm

01.05.2005

Math & Computer Science

Why should a computer scientist care about mazes?

Dr. Yitzhak Pilpel. Gene team

Send in the Substitutes

01.05.2005

Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

If gene activities were football games, the substitute players would come from the nearest basketball team

First Matter

First Matter

18.04.2005

People and Events

A new particle detector built at the Weizmann Institute of Science will help probe the primordial universe

Catching a Sneak

Catching a Sneak

13.04.2005

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

Weizmann Institute Scientists reveal the shape of a protein that helps retroviruses break into cells

Two are Better than One

Two are Better than One

01.04.2005

Cancer, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Right combination of customized antibodies may destroy cancer cell's communication network

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