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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/new-witchweed-fighting-method-developed-cimmyt-and-weizmann-institute-scientist
July 1, 2002
Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers’ fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking results in long-term trials of an innovative witchweed-fighting technology developed by a Weizmann Institute scientist in collaboration with researchers at...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/zooming-star-points-supermassive-black-hole-center-milky-way
October 16, 2002
Supermassive black holes -- the name given to black holes whose mass is more than 1,000,000 times the mass of the sun -- can be found at the center of many galaxies. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and seve...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/human-kidneys-created-mice
December 23, 2002
Transplanted tissue could offer a solution to kidney donor shortage Instead of searching for a kidney donor, a new study suggests, one might be able to grow a new kidney. A team headed by Prof. Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science has induced human stem cell tis...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/functional-mri-will-enable-non-invasive-visualization-brain-cortical-columns
January 25, 2000
The issue of the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience (24.1.00) includes two articles describing scientific findings based on functional MRI (fMRI) and optical imaging technology, that may considerably advance the field of brain research as well treatment of neurological disord...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/radiation-resistant-organism-reveals-its-defense-strategies
January 9, 2003
The secret to its strength is a ring Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans the most radiation-resistant organism in the world: The microbe's DNA is packed tightly into a ring. The findings, published in the January...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sperm-use-heat-sensors-find-egg
January 31, 2003
Much like guided missiles that sense the heat of a plane's engine, sperm are guided to the fertilization site by temperature, reports a Weizmann Institute study published in the current issue of Nature Medicine. The site where the egg lies is slightly warmer than the plac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/blood-test-schizophrenia
January 17, 2000
A relatively simple blood test for diagnosing the mental illness schizophrenia has been proposed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The study, conducted by Prof. Sara Fuchs and graduate student Tal Ilani of the Immunology Department, is to be published on Januar...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/tiny-computing-machine-fueled-dna
February 24, 2003
Fifty years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, a new use has been found for this celebrated molecule: fuel for molecular computation systems. The search, conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, will appear in this week's issue of Proceedings of the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/x-rays-yield-mechanism-alzheimer’s-drug
February 24, 2003
A team of Weizmann scientists has gained new insight into the effects of a newly approved drug, rivastigmine, in treating Alzheimer’s disease, a debilitating brain disease causing memory loss in around 10% of the elderly. The study was published in the American Chemical Society j...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/greenhouse-gas-might-green-desert
May 12, 2003
Missing: around 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas charged with global warming. Every year, industry releases about 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And every year, when scientists measure the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmos...
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