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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/schizoid-microbe
November 1, 2001
The twists and turns in the drama of combating disease are no less sensational than those found in a typical soap opera. In both, the "villain" may actually turn out to be the "good guy." For example, Prof. Avraham Ben-Nun of the Institute's Immunology Department has discovered t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/takeoffs-and-landings
November 1, 2001
An efficient flow of neuronal signals depends upon the precise architecture of the nerves. Neuronal fibers are wrapped in segments of myelin sheaths that insulate them and enable the rapid conduction of nerve impulses. The signal travels along the nerve fiber in such a way that i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/it-was-dark-and-stormy-night
November 1, 2001
On a rainy winter night in 1972, Roni Atar, a mathematics student at the Weizmann Institute's Feinberg Graduate School, was driving home with his wife when they suddenly saw two children, soaked to the bone, seeking a li...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/smelling-rose
November 1, 2008
Is the distance between the smell of almonds and that of bananas greater than the distance between the smell of almonds and that of roses? A new method, developed by research student Rafi Haddad under the supervision of Prof. Noam Sobel of the Neurobiology Department and Pro...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/part-and-particle
November 1, 2008
When is dividing by four more complicated than dividing by three or five? When the thing divided is the charge of an electron. A decade after they discovered “q...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/large-scale-invasion
November 1, 2008
Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed certain mechanisms by which a mimivirus – a virus so called because it was originally thought to mimic bacteria in vario...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/annual-report-1999
November 1, 1999
On November 2, 1949, the Weizmann Institute of Science, originally known as the Daniel Sieff Institute, was formally dedicated and named in honor of the scientist, statesman, and first President of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. It consisted of 10 buildings and a staff of 130. Thoug...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-ben-zion-shilo
November 1, 2007
Prof. Ben-Zion Shilo joined the Weizmann Institute's Virology Department in 1981 after finishing doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. His lab was the first to identify conservation of cancer-causing gen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-benjamin-geiger
November 1, 2007
Prof. Benjamin Geiger received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 1977. He has been a member of the Institute faculty since 1979, when he joined the Chemical Immunology Department. Previous Institute positions held by Geiger include Dean of the Feinberg Graduate Sc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-samuel-safran
November 1, 2005
Prof. Samuel Safran is a physicist who works with chemists, biologists and other physicists to understand the structure and organization of soft matter and biomaterials. He joined the Weizmann Institute in 1990 as a professor in the Department of Materials and I...
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