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Introduction

Introduction

01.09.2004

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Structural Biology

A new era is dawning in the battle against cancer. In the more than 30 years that have elapsed since U.S. President Richard Nixon “declared war” on cancer in 1971, scientists have made gigantic...

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 2: TUMOR GROWTH

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 2: TUMOR GROWTH

01.09.2004

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Structural Biology

Even after a malignant transformation has occurred, the budding tumor is a microscopic lump that doesn’t do much harm until it begins to expand dramatically

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 3: METASTASIS

TAKING ACTION AT STEP 3: METASTASIS

01.09.2004

Fewer than 10 percent of cancer deaths are caused by tumors growing at their original site; in the majority of cases the metastases are the real killers

Models of Cancer

Models of Cancer

01.09.2004

Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Scientists say that the mouse is the workhorse of modern biology

Top (l-r): Leonid Karlinsky, Dr. Michel Vidal-Naquet, Ita Lifschitz, Boris Epshtein. Bottom (l-r): Prof. Shimon Ullman, Eli Okon, Evgeniy Bart, Dan Levy, Eran Borenstein. On all fours: the everfaithful LeilahProf. Ullman's

Man's Search for Meaning

31.08.2004

Brain & Behavior, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Technology & Applications

How does the brain piece together the signals reaching it from the eye to make sense of our world?

Top (l-r): Dr. Ernesto Lozano-Tellechea, Dr. Shesansu Sekhar Pal, Prof. Micha Berkooz, Prof. Ofer Aharony. Middle: Dr. Bartomeu Fiol, Dori Reichmann, Tomer Volansky. Bottom: Assaf Patir, Boaz Katz

Life on a String

31.08.2004

Particle Physics

Physicists are striving to show that all known particles are the product of an ancient component, which they’ve dubbed a “string,” and that all the forces of nature are none other than different...

Top (l-r): Prof. Gideon Schreiber, Dana Reichmann, Noga Kozer, Ofer Rahat, Dr. Kay Gottschalk, Diego Jaitin. Middle: Renne Abramovich and Dr. Tal Peleg-Shulman. Bottom: Yossie Shaul and Yossie Kutner

Cell Talk

31.08.2004

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Mathematics

The pioneering research by Schreiber and others will advance the development of algorithms targeting a better understanding of protein communication - insights into which hold much promise for...

(l-r): Dr. Ilan Levy, Dr. Deborah Fass, Einav Gross, Maya Bar, Tamir Klein, Roy Sirkis, Nimrod Heldman

The Art of Folding

31.08.2004

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

Numerous breakthroughs in the fields of genetics and biochemistry have led to the recognition that protein folding in the cell is a highly controlled and complex process.

Top (l-r) Dr. Smadar Eventov-Friedman, Oren Milstein, Dr. Benjamin Dekel, Dr. Elias Shezen, Dr. Helena Katchman, David Steiner, Dr. Rinat Goren. Middle (l-r): Prof. Yair Reisner, Anna Aronovich, Dr. Gil Hecht, Doreen Rosenberg, Dr. Shraga Aviner, Dr. Esther Bachar-Lustig. Bottom (l-r): Dr. Shlomit Reich-Zeliger, Lior Zangi, Dalit Tchorsh, Noga Bronitsky

Mending the Human Machine

31.08.2004

Cancer, Stem Cells, Immunology

Prof. Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute’s Immunology Department developed a method for successfully transplanting stem cells from the bone marrow of a partially matched donor

Top (l-r): Victor Ben-Sahal , Nissim Attias, Amir Argi, Moshe Algrabli, Moty Levy. Middle: Yuval Yurman, Rachel Kraus. Bottom: Oudi Zohar

On Campus

31.08.2004

People, Time Tunnel

The vision of “administrative excellence in the service of scientific excellence” will be further realized when every single manager and employee pursues such values as personal...

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