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Degrees of Similarity

Degrees of Similarity

01.11.2007

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What makes two pictures, or two people, look alike to us? Why does one voice remind us of another? How can we tell if two genes, or two proteins, are similar?

Tamar and Merav Arieli

Twin Talents

01.11.2007

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After the army, the two decided to study physics and cognitive science."And when we received our degrees, we decided to continue learning physics." At the Weizmann Institute Graduate School Open Day

Eran Sela, a research student

Shrinking Their World

01.11.2007

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What happens to electrons when we shrink their world? It's also the question asked by Eran Sela, a research student in the group of Dr. Yuval Oreg of the Weizmann Institute's Condensed Matter Physics Department.

Maya Bar Sadan

Full of Fullerenes

01.11.2007

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What is the smallest stable, inorganic fullerene-type molecule one can make? How will its structure affect such properties as electrical conductivity? Tenne's research student Maya Bar Sadan is tackling these questions in his lab in the Institute's Materials and Interfaces Department

Nathan Zauberman: student in the Organic Chemistry Department

Caught in the Act

01.11.2007

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How does a virus penetrate a living cell wall? And in what ways does this intruder disrupt life inside the cell? These questions are central to the research of Nathan Zauberman, a student in Prof. Abraham Minsky's group in the Weizmann Institute's Organic Chemistry Department.

research student Sagi Levy

Noisy Network

01.11.2007

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Sagi Levy is a research student in the lab of Prof. Naama Barkai in the Molecular Genetics Department of the Weizmann Institute. He studies the evolution of genetic networks to see how they develop resistance to the genetic and environmental noise in their daily routines and learn to separate the signal from the background noise.

research student Yael Wexler Cohen

Blocking Entry

01.11.2007

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It takes more than a little nerve these days to take on HIV research, when so many of the world's scientists have been at it for years. But research student Yael Wexler Cohen, who works in the lab of Prof. Yechiel Shai of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, isn't fazed by such challenges.

Suha Naffar-Abu Amara, a research student

Cells on the Move

01.11.2007

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Suha Naffar-Abu Amara, a research student in the lab group of Prof. Benjamin Geiger of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Cell Biology Department, researches how metastatic cancer cells gain the ability to uproot themselves and move off to colonize distant organs.

Chunxiu Yu, a student

Whiskers and the Brain

01.11.2007

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Sensory organs – fingers, eyes, whiskers – move continuously to sample the surroundings. How does the brain keep track of these movements, creating a stable image of the external world? Research by Chunxiu Yu, a student working in the lab of Prof. Ehud Ahissar in the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, is shedding new light on this long-debated question.

Tiruwork Mulat, Weizmann Graduate School student

Pressing for Success

01.11.2007

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Life led Tiruwork Mulat – a math teacher from Addis Ababa – to Israel. Concerned about the integration of Ethiopian immigrants into the Westernized Israeli culture, she researches the reasons that Ethiopian immigrants are poorly represented in advanced high school courses for math and science.

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