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Multi-National Team of Physicists, Including Weizmann Institute Scientists:

Multi-National Team of Physicists, Including Weizmann Institute Scientists:

12.06.2003

Particle Physics

"Promising indications that we may have succeeded in reproducing matter as it first appeared in the universe right after the Big Bang"

Glucocerebrosidase

Weizmann Institute Scientists Solve the 3-D Structure of the Enzyme Involved in Gaucher Disease

02.06.2003

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

The discovery may help design effective therapies for the genetic disease that mainly affects Ashkenazi Jews

Prof. Dan Yakir

Greenhouse Gas Might Green Up the Desert

12.05.2003

Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Weizmann Institute study suggests that rising carbon dioxide levels might cause forests to spread into dry environments

Prof. David Mirelman and his research team. Antisense

Montezuma's Final Act?

01.05.2003

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

"Silenced" amoebas could lead to a vaccine against their aggressive brethren

Bring On the Rain

Bring On the Rain

01.05.2003

Space & Physics, Climate

A new formula for predicting rain factors in whirling droplets

Stars pulled into the crowded perimeter of a supermassive black hole sometimes collide. Simulation of a collision between two stars.

Riding a Black Hole

01.05.2003

A ten-year study suggest the mass at the center of the Milky way is a supermassive black hole

Left to right: Ph.D. student Benny Dekel and Prof. Yair Reisner. Timing is everything

Mice Grow Human Kidneys

01.05.2003

Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Patients in need of kidneys might be able to grow new ones in the future

Left to right: Ph.D. students Anna Gakamsky and Anat Bahat, Prof. Michael Eisenbach. Obstacle course

Sperm on the Egghunt

01.05.2003

Biochemistry, Fertility

Sperm are tiny "heat-seeking missiles" homing in on the egg

Deinococcus radiodurans

Lord of the Ring

01.05.2003

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Plants and Agriculture, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

What gives a bacterium the ability to withstand 3000 times more radiation than humans?

Clockwise: Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Prof. Zvi Livneh, Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur, Ph. D. student Yaakov Benenson and Dr. Rivka Adar. Guinness World Record

DNA Fuels Tiny Computing Machine

01.05.2003

Biochemistry, Math & Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biotechnology

DNA is not only the "software" of the world's smallest computing device, it's also the fuel

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