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Key Step in Activating Immune System Discovered

Key Step in Activating Immune System Discovered

06.02.1997

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

REHOVOT, Israel - February 6, 1997 - A gene that plays a key role in activating the immune system -- and perhaps also in spurring on the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS -- has been...

The Watery Birth of Stars

The Watery Birth of Stars

01.02.1997

Logically, stars should not exist. They are born when clouds of interstellar gas collapse inwardly under their own weight, growing denser and hotter until nuclear fusion causes them to emit energy...

Pacman in the Brain: Protein Chews up Vital Memory Chemical

Pacman in the Brain: Protein Chews up Vital Memory Chemical

01.02.1997

Brain & Behavior

What does the human brain have in common with a popular video game and a carnivorous flower? At least one thing, it turns out. A team from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and France's Pasteur...

Prof. Ruth Arnon

'Women of Distinction' Award to Two Weizmann Institute Scientists

28.01.1997

REHOVOT, Israel -- January 28, 1997 -- This week, two scientists from Israel's Weizmann Institute were honored for an achievement that bears on the lives of many people throughout the world. Prof...

On the Surface of Things

On the Surface of Things

02.01.1997

Materials Science

From pens to pans, from hard disks to compact discs, an increasing number of products are made of polymers, giant complex molecules with repeating structural units. Different polymers...

Study Shows How Ancient Chinese Herb May Act As Alzheimer Drug

Study Shows How Ancient Chinese Herb May Act As Alzheimer Drug

01.01.1997

REHOVOT, Israel -- January 1, 1997 -- A new Weizmann Institute study shows exactly how a substance derived from a moss long used in Chinese folk medicine blocks a brain enzyme that may be...

New Drug for Multiple Sclerosis Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

New Drug for Multiple Sclerosis Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

23.12.1996

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

REHOVOT, Israel -- December 23, 1996 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of the Israeli drug copolymer-1, to be marketed under the brand name COPAXONE, for...

Potential Weight-Loss Drug May Be Linked to Adult Diabetes

Potential Weight-Loss Drug May Be Linked to Adult Diabetes

15.11.1996

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

REHOVOT, Israel -- November 15, 1996 -- Leptin, the protein that made headlines two years ago when it was found to reduce obesity in mice, may be a cause of adult-onset diabetes in humans,...

Environmentally Friendly Building Dedicated at the Weizmann Institute

Environmentally Friendly Building Dedicated at the Weizmann Institute

13.11.1996

REHOVOT, Israel -- November 13, 1996 -- An environmentally friendly building designed to rely as little as possible on energy from polluting fossil fuels was dedicated this week at Israel's...

Prof. Amir Pnueli

World's Most Prestigious Award in Computer Science to Weizmann Institute's Prof. Amir Pnueli

07.11.1996

REHOVOT, Israel -- November 7, 1996 -- A Weizmann Institute of Science mathematician, Prof. Amir Pnueli, has been named the recipient of the 1996 Turing Award, the world's most prestigious prize,...

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