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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/got-prevent-brain-damage
March 14, 2011
Two studies recently conducted in Spain provide conclusive evidence for the effectiveness of a novel approach, developed at the Weizmann Institute, to treating stroke, head trauma and other diseases of the brain. In 2003, Prof. Vivian I. Teichberg of the Neurobiology...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/portrait-statesman
March 14, 2011
In their documentary film The Statesman, filmmakers Dan and Noit Geva present fascinating insights into the public figure and private personality that were merged in Israel’s first president. The Statesman – the first full-length film on Dr. Chaim Weizmann – uses his ow...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/open-and-shut-case
March 21, 2011
The hero, as heroes do, is relaxing with friends or enjoying a meal, when a mortal threat – a giant wave, a monster or a blood thirsty criminal – appears with no prior warning, compelling the hero to jump up and run for his life. As he does so, his heart must s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nanotubes-go-gold
March 21, 2011
King Midas may have turned everything he touched to gold, but he never got his hands on carbon nanotubes. That feat has been left to Prof. Ernesto Joselevich and research student...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/keeping-pace-world’s-food-demand
March 21, 2011
When a heat wave sent tomato prices soaring this past summer, before the High Holidays, Israelis got a taste of the precarious nature of our food supply: Any climate upheaval c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/antioxidants-food-supplement-or-birth-control
May 8, 2011
Antioxidants are sold over the counter everywhere. They’re added to food, drink and even face cream. But according to Prof. Nava Dekel of the Biological Regulation Department, we still don’t have...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/poetry-ricky-rapoport-friesem
March 28, 2011
Recently, Ricky Rapoport Friesem was named International Senior Poet Laureate by the U.S. Amy Kitchener Foundation, an honor she received for her poem Afterlife. Rapoport Friesem, who is married to Prof. Asher Friesem of the Physics of Complex Systems Department, he...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/price-sophisticated-immune-system
March 28, 2011
Can a bacterium get rheumatoid arthritis? Not quite, but new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that bacteria can suffer from a type of autoimmune disease – one in which their immune system mistakenly attacks their own cells, just as it does in human autoimm...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/shine-light-nanoworld
April 4, 2011
Sunlight – valued as a nearly infinite source of energy – can also provide an unusual glimpse into the nanoworld. In a new study, led by researchers from the Weizmann Institute and Ben-Gu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tears-are-turn
April 4, 2011
When we cry – a universal human behavior – we clearly send all sorts of emotional signals. Now, Institute scientists have shown that some of those emotional signals are chemically encoded in...
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