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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/spinning-dna
May 30, 2011
Biological molecules and quantum systems are not just apples and oranges – they’re more like apple trees and cans of frozen orange juice. The two exist in completely different conditions, on completely different scales. Yet research by Prof. Ron Naaman...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-build-cellular-recycling-machine
May 30, 2011
Allowing broken furniture and appliances to accumulate can cause stress: If we fail to haul them away, our house at some point becomes unlivable. For the living cell, with its limited r...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/social-networking-molecular-style
June 13, 2011
When two people strike up a friendship, sometimes their spouses, children or even pets become friends too. In the case of Dr. Ami Navon and Prof. Zvulun Elazar, biologists and friends at the Weizmann Institute, their comradeship extends to the molecular pathways the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/place-sun
June 13, 2011
“One of my dreams for the field of alternative energy is to see the day when all homes will be covered in ‘solar paint’,” says Prof. David Cahen of the Weizmann Institute’s Materials and Interfaces Department (Faculty of Chemistry). “The trick,” says Cahen, “is to understand...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-job-busy-protein
June 22, 2011
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.” On second thought this advice (originally from Lucille Ball), makes quite a bit of sense. So it is no wonder that the protein p53, which works in our cells day and night to keep cancer at bay, has also been h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/still-large-wimps
June 29, 2011
The existence of particles known as WIMPs is still up in the air. The WIMP, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, is one candidate for the mysterious dark matter thought to make up much of our universe. Such a parti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lab-mice-didn’t-get-fat
July 5, 2011
As levels of obesity continue to rise around the world, real solutions to the problem are surprisingly hard to come by. This is partly because we still don’t understand all of the complexities of the metabolic cycles in which eating, hunger, physical activity a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/senses-under-stress-adversity-blurs-perception
July 5, 2011
Adversity, we are told, heightens our senses, imprinting sights and sounds precisely in our memories. But recent Weizmann Institute research, which appeared in Nature Neuroscience, suggests the exact opposite may b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/resisting-division
July 21, 2011
Temptations to exceed the speed limit are always plentiful, but only reckless drivers give in to such impulses. Likewise, numerous growth factors always abound in our bodies, but only cancerous cells are quickly “tempted” by these chemicals to divide again and again. Healthy...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/complex-grammar
August 10, 2011
10-08-2011 Dr. Elad Schneidman of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department likens studying how neurons in the brain communicate to learning a new language just by listening to a native speaker. At first the task seems insurmountable, but little by little we be...
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