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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/protecting-computer-systems-and-communication-networks
May 1, 1995
Upgrading the confidentiality and authenticity of data communications and of computer-stored information is a major goal of leading cryptography experts at the Weizmann Institute's Faculty of Mathematical Sciences. By studying and improving encryption techniques, they a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/soap-bubbles-and-silicon-chips
October 1, 1992
Studies on seemingly frivolous soap-bubble arrays carried out by Dr. Yoel Stavans of the Department of Electronics are shedding light on the properties of a wide range of systems with cellular structures. They include magnetic recording films, silicon wafers, ceramics, foams...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/plato-grinvald
May 1, 1995
An article reviewing the development of man's understanding of vision, which recently appeared in the Journal of NIH Research, begins with Plato's theory of "visual fire" and ends with elucidation of functional organization in the visual cortex of the brain by Prof. Amiram Grinva...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/weizmann-scientists-put-israel-forefront-microelectronics
May 1, 1995
Thanks to the Weizmann Institute, Israel is now in the forefront of microelectronics research, even though such research did not even exist in this country five years ago. The change was brought about by the establishment of the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Center for Submicron R...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/shedding-light-infertility
October 1, 1992
A Weizmann Institute scientist has shown that the injection of certain natural growth factors into pregnant mice helps prevent them from miscarrying. Dr. Boris Tartakovsky of the Institute's Department of Chemical Immunology found two growth factors, or cytokines, that dramatical...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/mysterious-account-agriculture-masada-clarified-institute-study
May 1, 1995
A puzzling reference to "agriculture in the fortress of Masada" by Josephus Flavius, a noted Jewish historian and general of the first century A.D., may now be better understood thanks to a Weizmann Institute study recently described in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Based on c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/improved-bone-marrow-transplants-leukemia-patients
May 1, 1995
Researchers from the Weizmann Institute and Perugia University in Italy have developed a method that may significantly improve the chances for people with leukemia to receive potentially life-saving bone marrow transplants. Whereas today many leukemia patients fail to find proper...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/operation-major-breast-cancer-drug-explained
May 1, 1995
One of the most puzzling aspects of the widely used breast cancer drug tamoxifen -- which shrinks estrogen-sensitive tumors yet is unable to kill cells from these tumors in tissue culture -- has been clarified by Weizmann Institute scientists working with doctors at the Sheba Med...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/shaping-israels-future
May 1, 1995
Institute environmental scientist Prof. Emanuel Mazor is working to ensure that in the 21st century Israel follows the path of sustainable development, one that does not involve destruction of the environment. This is no trivial task considering that the country's population...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/joining-race-decipher-human-genome
October 1, 1992
Israeli molecular biologists can now participate fully in the international quest to decipher the human genome, thanks to a $500,000 automated DNA Analysis Laboratory that opened last year at the Institute. The Human Genome Project, a 15-year multinational endeavor to sequence ma...
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