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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/what-makes-proteins-tick
August 30, 2010
Proteins. They’re the stuff of our muscles, nerves and organs. They’re the enzymes that control our body’s functions, the basic parts of the molecular machinery that keeps our cells alive, the molecules that transfer signals into cells and initiate gene copying s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-do-tiny-rna-molecules-call-shots
August 30, 2010
Until recently, RNA was known only as a long, single-stranded polymer of genetic material that shuttles the information encoded in the DNA across the nuclear membrane to the ribosomes, where it is translated into protein. Proteins, on the other hand,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-does-body-evolve-two-cells
August 30, 2010
It has been called a mystery and a miracle. It is truly a process so complex that we’re just beginning to tease apart the series of events that produces a complete organism in a matter of days, weeks or months. It begins with the genome: the set of genes oft...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-does-brain-take-shape
August 30, 2010
we use our brain to shape the world around us; but first, the basic design of our interior world must unfold in our developing brain. What genetic and neural mechanisms give rise to our personality? Which fine tune our sexual behavior? What code programs a mother...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/helm
August 31, 2010
Founding Chairman: Dewey D. Stone, U.S.A. Chair of the Board of Governors: Mandy Moross, U.K. Deputy Chairs: Lester Crown, U.S.A. Robert J. Drake, The Netherlands Dame Vivian Duffield, U.K. Prof. Yoram Groner, Israel Chair of the Executive Council and Executive Com...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/complexity-simplicity
August 31, 2008
Complexity is the name of the game in the modern world. Using the tools of dynamical systems theory, Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar studies systems that evolve over time, plying mathematics to gain new insights into our complex world. Recently, Rom-Kedar examined a particularly in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/trail-innovation
August 31, 2008
Scientific innovation sometimes follows a winding and surprising path. This is particularly true for Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry Departments. At the start of his career, he developed a comp...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/missing-antimatter
August 31, 2008
Looking at certain pictures, we get the feeling something is missing. Prof. Yosef Nir, Dean of the Weizmann Institute’s Faculty of Physics, looks at the picture of matter in the universe and sees that “something” simply isn’t there. This mystery has wide-ranging implications...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/snap-shots
August 31, 2008
Dr. Nirit Dudovich, a young physicist who recently joined the Weizmann Institute’s Physics of Complex Systems Department, loves the fast lane. In her state-of-the-art lab, one of only a few of its kind in the world, she “shoots” laser-produced light pulses lasting just a few...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/magnetic-attraction
August 31, 2008
Until recently, scientists wishing to study chemical and biological molecules in their natural setting using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) had to perform hundreds or thousands of independent unidimensional measurements, which later had to be combined to obtain a multidime...
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