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What's The Whole Truth About 'Less Than Whole' Electron Charges?

What's The Whole Truth About 'Less Than Whole' Electron Charges?

16.05.2000

Particle Physics

What is the smallest negative electric charge you can think of? Chances are that you quickly responded: 'an electron.' Indeed, ever since American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan first measured...

Gamma Ray Hide & Seek

Gamma Ray Hide & Seek

16.05.2000

Draping the earth and entire universe in a thin, ever-present veil, their origin remains one of the greatest puzzles of cosmology. However, the mystique of gamma rays -- particles of light...

Science's leading lights at the Institute, Celebrating 50

The World of Science Salutes the Weizmann Institute

01.05.2000

Leading research institute heads join in the Jubilee celebrations at the Institute

3-D computer reconstruction of an inhibitory neuron (white) synaptically interconnected to three pyramidal (excitatory) neurons (blue)

Filters of the Mind

01.05.2000

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

New studies on neurons that inhibit brain activity may shed light on such conditions as ADHD, epilepsy, and other disorders

Prof. Ada Yonath.

Ribosomal Revelations

01.05.2000

Structural Biology

Key progress by Weizmann Institute scientists in the race to unravel the ribosome's structure

Illustration: Spinal cord injury and repair

Hyde Turned Jekyll

01.05.2000

Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Rats with spinal injuries show improvement after immune cell treatment

Ayelet Vilan. Bringing about organic control

Going Organic - Electronically

01.05.2000

Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Organic molecules may be the future of electronics. Weizmann Institute scientists are leading the way

Careful actin regulation keeps the cell in shape

Shooting the Messenger

01.05.2000

Molecular and Cell Biology

How an essential cellular protein regulates its own levels

Prof. Irith Ginzburg.

Alzheimer's and the Wheel

01.05.2000

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A faulty wheel in nerve cell "carriages" might be responsible for tangled axons in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

Dr. Ehud Ahissar

The Ins and Outs of Acetylcholine

01.05.2000

Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A enigma concerning the role of a neurotransmitter in learning and memory is solved

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