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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-molecule-boosts-stem-cell-survival
August 1, 1999
Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a molecule that allows blood stem cells - the body's most primitive, immature cells that originate in the bone marrow - to multiply without maturation in the test tube. This achievement, described in the Augus...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/neatness-pays
January 1, 1998
Catalysts are the pacesetters of the chemical industry, speeding reactions that are vital to the manufacture of a host of products such as drugs, synthetic fibers and plastics. Now researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that a catalyst's performance can b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/progress-reported-developing-compounds-mimic-insulin-treatment-type-ii-diabetes
November 24, 1999
Diabetic patients suffer from a metabolic disorder in which the insulin hormone responsible for allowing the passage of energy rich nutrients from the bloodstream into the body's cells does not function properly or at all. Diabetes afflicts 15 million Americans, and 90 percen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/envelope-please
January 1, 1998
Two managers have run into a delicate problem. Each has received a complaint from a company employee on a sensitive matter. In both cases, the complainer has requested to keep his identity confidential. The managers would like to determine whether the same person has complained t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/key-progress-weizmann-scientists-race-unravel-ribosomal-structure
December 7, 1999
A team of Weizmann Institute and Max-Planck Society scientists has determined the structure of the small ribosomal subunit at the highest resolution ever achieved, including the site where protein biosynthesis begins. Ribosomes, the universal cellular organelles responsible...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/cellular-short-circuit-causes-insulin-resistance
January 1, 1998
Future treatments for diabetes may correct the underlying causes of this prevalent metabolic disorder rather than just treat its symptoms. An important step in this direction has been made by Prof. Yehiel Zick of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Cell Biology Department....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/imaging-method-reveals-remarkable-architecture-working-brain
December 16, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - December 16, 1997 - With thousands of neurons firing signals in all directions and forming trillions of possible connections, you'd expect the working brain to be a messy place. Yet a new study conducted by researchers from Max Planck Institute of Psychiatr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/gullivers-garden-tiny-tomatoes-speed-genetic-engineering-plants
December 10, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - December 10, 1997 - A tiny tomato, dubbed "Micro-Tom," may mean big news for genetic engineering. The Lilliputian plant, adapted for research by Dr. Avraham Levy of the Weizmann Institute of Science, is the key to a new method that may speed the process of unrav...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/summer-discovery-budding-scientists-around-world
July 14, 1998
By Erica Zeitlin REHOVOT, Israel - July 14, 1998 - Where can a budding scientist fresh out of a Singapore high school conduct experiments in English under the guidance of renowned Israeli researchers? At Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, that's where. Eighteen-year-old...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/feinberg-graduate-school-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary
June 12, 1998
By Nofit Milstein REHOVOT, Israel -- June 12, 1998 -- "The first thing my professor did after meeting me at the airport at 5 a.m. was to take me to the supermarket. Then he showed me around the Weizmann Institute campus. Having been brought up in Japan and done my M.Sc. at M...
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