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First Sightings of Individual Proteins as They Fold

First Sightings of Individual Proteins as They Fold

01.03.2003

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Proteins, it appears, have taken Frank Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" close to heart. A new study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals how...

Tiny Computing Machine Fueled by DNA

Tiny Computing Machine Fueled by DNA

24.02.2003

Biochemistry, Math & Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Fifty years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, a new use has been found for this celebrated molecule: fuel for molecular computation systems. The search, conducted by scientists at the...

X-Rays Yield Mechanism of Alzheimer’s Drug

X-Rays Yield Mechanism of Alzheimer’s Drug

24.02.2003

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

A team of Weizmann scientists has gained new insight into the effects of a newly approved drug, rivastigmine, in treating Alzheimer’s disease, a debilitating brain disease causing memory loss in...

NMR - The Movie

NMR - The Movie

24.02.2003

Space & Physics, Chemistry

Ten construction workers will often get a job done faster than one. But in digging a deep well, for instance, ten workers are a waste of human resources: the diggers can't work simultaneously,...

Sperm Use Heat Sensors to Find the Egg

Sperm Use Heat Sensors to Find the Egg

31.01.2003

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Fertility

Much like guided missiles that sense the heat of a plane's engine, sperm are guided to the fertilization site by temperature, reports a Weizmann Institute study published in the current issue of...

Radiation-Resistant Organism Reveals Its Defense Strategies

Radiation-Resistant Organism Reveals Its Defense Strategies

09.01.2003

Space & Physics, Viruses & Microorganisms, Organic Chemistry

The secret to its strength is a ring Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans the most radiation-resistant organism in the world: The...

Top (arrow): Transplant of a human kidney originating from an 8-week old embryo, 8 weeks after transplantation. Bottom: Tissue sections of the kidney transplant at varying magnifications indicating differentiation into various cell structures.

Human Kidneys Created in Mice

23.12.2002

Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Transplanted tissue could offer a solution to kidney donor shortage

Gene Responsible For Anemia (Type CDA-1) Discovered

Gene Responsible For Anemia (Type CDA-1) Discovered

15.12.2002

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

A rare type of the disease found mainly in Bedouins may provide insight into anemia

Humanity and Humanism: The Bioethical Perspective of Evolution

Humanity and Humanism: The Bioethical Perspective of Evolution

10.11.2002

People and Events, Science Education, Science & Culture

Hubert Markl, Professor of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany Former President of the Max Planck Society, Munich Chaim Weizmann Lecture in Humanities 2002 November 10, 2002,...

Dr. Uri Alon

Genes, Neurons, and The Internet Found to Have Organizing Principles – Some Identical

06.11.2002

How do 30,000 genes in our DNA work together to form a large part of who we are? How do one hundred billion neurons operate in our brain? The huge number of factors involved makes such complex...

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