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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  
Prof. Yair Reisner

Prize to Weizmann Institute Professor for Landmark Work in Stem Cell Transplantation

12.12.2002
Prof. Yair Reisner of the Institute's Immunology Department will be awarded the Daniele Chianelli Prize on December 15, 2002, commemorating his work of over 20 years on incompatible stem cell transplantation. Bone marrow or stem cell tranplantation is a crucial part of the therapeutic strategy aimed at saving the lives of people with leukemia, malignant lymphoma, multiple myeloma and congenital blood disorders, such as thalassemia or severe immune deficiencies.  
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 networks hard to crack. Now, a study published in the October 25 issue of Science uncovers a strategy for finding the organizing principles of virtually any network – from neural networks to ecological food webs or the Internet.  
Sling Effect in Clouds Brings on the Rain

Sling Effect in Clouds Brings on the Rain

30.10.2002
Climate, Mathematics
New formula developed by Weizmann Institute physicists may improve rain prediction Weizmann Institute physicists have revealed that turbulence in clouds can accelerate rain formation. In a study published in Nature, they developed a formula that makes it possible to calculate how fast tiny droplets within clouds cluster into heavy, rain-producing drops. The research may provide an effective tool for rain prediction.  
Forty-year-old theory promoted to fact

Forty-year-old theory promoted to fact

24.10.2002
Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics
‘TWIN SISTER’ MECHANISM PREVENTS FORMATION OF GENETIC MUTATIONS    
Simulation of a collision between two stars. Simulations by Dr. Tal Alexander, Weizmann Institute of Science

Zooming Star Points to Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

16.10.2002
Astrophysics
The scientists tracked, for the first time, a star completing an orbit around a known unusual source of radiation (a black hole candidate) in the center of our galaxy. This discovery heralds a new epoch of high precision black hole astronomy and that might help us better understand how galaxies are born and evolve.
Kenyan farmer with corn plant stunted by Striga (witchweed) in foreground and corn with seed coating technology to the right and in the background.

New Witchweed-Fighting Method, Developed by CIMMYT and a Weizmann Institute Scientist, To Become Public in July

01.07.2002
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers’ fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking results in long-term trials of an innovative witchweed-fighting technology.
Bone Marrow Transplants May be Improved Due to the Uncovering of a Key Mechanism Responsible for Stem Cell Mobilization

Bone Marrow Transplants May be Improved Due to the Uncovering of a Key Mechanism Responsible for Stem Cell Mobilization

30.06.2002
Stem Cells, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a mechanism that enables stem cells to exit the bone marrow into the blood circulation of healthy donors as well as patients suffering from leukemia, other malignancies and blood disorders. Published in the current July issue of Nature Immunology, the findings may lead to more efficient clinical stem cell transplantations.    
The three predictions of protein-protein complex structures.

Weizmann Institute Scientists Successful in Global Experiment for the Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions

24.06.2002
Biochemistry, Chemistry, Structural Biology, Math & Computer Science
CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions) Challenge, an international experiment in which participants submit predictions of structures of protein-protein complexes prior to experimental determination

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