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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/cells-move
November 1, 2007
Cancer fatalities don't usually occur as the result of the original growth. It is metastasis – the stage in which all of the body's defense mechanisms...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/whiskers-and-brain
November 1, 2007
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?...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/pressing-success
November 1, 2007
Life led Tiruwork Mulat – a math teacher from Addis Ababa – to Israel. Though her absorption into her new country was anythin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/institute-news
May 1, 2006
Mr. Mandy Moross of London, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, announced that the Institute's nominating committee has recommended to the Board of Governors that Prof. Daniel Zajfman be elected to the office of President of the Weiz...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/everybody-needs-friend-sometimes
May 1, 2006
We get by with a little help from our friends - but sometimes this help can come from an unexpected source. That’s what happened to a tiny relative of the mustard plant: Using genetic engineering, scientists endowed it with a strawberry gene, enabling it to recruit impr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/getting-oil-out
May 1, 2006
Part family saga, part invention that might help extend the world’s oil reserves for many years to come, the story of a patent for a method of extracting usable oil from so-called oil...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/keeping-fit
May 1, 2006
In a world of stable populations where each individual must struggle to survive, those with the "best" characteristics will be more likely to survive, and those desirable traits will be passed to their offspring. - Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/beyond-parts-list
May 1, 2006
Even the most inveterate tinkerer must occasionally consult the instruction manual. Unfortunately, for some important machines we rely on every day - the assortment of microscopic machinery that makes up our body's cells - no such manual exists. While the parts l...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-remember
May 1, 2006
How do our brains stay healthy? Until quite recently, most scientists believed each brain is allotted a fixed number of nerve cells that gradually degenerate and die without being replaced. Fortunately for us, science has since overturned this dogma: Certain regi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/beaming-across-border
May 1, 2006
Aladdin spoke the magic word "Sesame!" to open doors. Likewise, the SESAME project (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) stands to open doors that have for many years shut off the scientists of different countries from o...
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