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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/harnessing-sun
January 1, 1999
The challenge of harnessing inexhaustible, pollution-free solar power remains a top priority in sun-drenched, resource-poor Israel. The Weizmann Institute is equipped with one of the most advanced solar research facilities in the world, enabling Institute experts to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/more-and-better-water
January 1, 1999
In the Middle East, where fresh water has always been scarce, protecting and enhancing the water supply takes on added urgency. Institute scientists have analyzed local aquifers and developed water-protection and purification systems applicable world-wide. Disin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/physics-and-chemistry-life
January 1, 1999
Putting polymers to practical use The mechanochemical machine The physics of biology Supermodels: Useful as well as elegant Enzyme bonding that's become important in drug and food production When "V" means "Very good fit" Digesting the indigestible...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/understanding-immune-system
January 1, 1999
How genes control the immune system Whose bone marrow is it? Bringing wayward cells to task How cells are induced to commit suicide Joint action Drawing the fire of a misguided immune system Pioneers in producing homogeneous antibodies How an antibody m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/living-cells-crossroads
January 1, 1999
Benefits of the big chill Moving on up When blood cells die Muscle building Preparation for the beginning of life The egg's secret attraction To bind or not to bind? Benefits of the big chill The electron mic...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/genetics-roots-future
January 1, 1999
Prenatal diagnosis Muscular dystrophy and learning difficulties Understanding Down's syndrome The cause of smooth brain syndrome Genes that control cell death Genes and protein synthesis Viruses take control Flies that may help beat cancer Bypassing...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/inside-brain
January 1, 1999
Basic research is clarifying the structure of the brain, its function, and its dysfunction. A communication receptor suspected of involvement in both Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) has been isolated at the Institute. In th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/agriculture-and-plant-genetics
January 1, 1999
Higher Nutrition, Lower Pollution Weizmann Institute plant biologists are working on improving food crops while reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and herbicides. Hybrid cucumber varieties with high resistance to viral disease have been developed at the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/antibiotics-action
May 1, 2002
Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Germany's Max-Planck Society have discovered exactly how each of five antibiotic drugs bind to the bacterial ribosome - the cell's protein factory - shutting off protein production. Proteins are the cell's pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/theoretical-and-applied-mathematics
January 1, 1999
Prospecting for oil What the earth can tell us A simpler approach to nature's equations When the price is right New law of percolation From arithmetic to groups Geometry branches out Design and control: theory and practice Efficient decisionmaking Progre...
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