https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/upside-self-cannibalism
September 12, 2011
Cellular “trash haulers” are assembled on the spot through a unique membrane fusion process An organism that has fallen on hard times, or simply run out of resources, tears off bits of itself, breaks these down, and uses the pieces to bui...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/health-patrol
September 12, 2011
Revealing what makes B cells migrate from one organ to another may suggest new treatments for leukemia The cells of the immune system travel up and down the body’s conduits, seeking out foreign agents of disease. Like crowds of urban pedestrians,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/déjà-vu
September 12, 2011
An algorithm for zooming in on repeating elements in images and videos can help reconstruct missing information Efficiency is one of the prominent characteristics of nature. Instead of “reinventing the wheel,” nature prefers to perfect a system an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/black-hole-swing
September 12, 2011
When two black holes get close, what are the chances they will meet and emit gravitational waves? Right in the center of our galaxy – the Milky Way – sits a supermassive black hole weighing several million of our suns. Prof. Tal Alexander of the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus/summer-science
September 13, 2011
For over 40 years, high school juniors and seniors have been coming to the Weizmann Institute for a month in the summer to participate in the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute. T...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/trojan-horse-ride
September 13, 2011
When a mimivirus forcibly ejects its genetic material into a cell, it sends along building materials to make a “virus factory” This is a tale of mimiviruses – giant five-sided viruses – that disguise themselves as bacteria and attack amoebae. This i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dancing-light
September 13, 2011
The conversion of the sun’s energy to chemical energy is the basis of all life on Earth. The first stages of the process – photosynthesis – are among the fastest in the living world. Prof. Ziv Reich of the Faculty of Biochemistry probes th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/information-trail
September 13, 2011
Convoluted spy capers and vital information passed on to secret agents, enabling future counterattacks against invaders: This is the picture of the immune system that is emerging from the advanced imaging system in the lab of Dr. Guy Shakhar of the Faculty...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/poetry-science
September 13, 2011
A competition held in memory of Prof. Ofer Lider bridges the gap between art and science Building bridges between the culture of science and the culture of the humanities, wrote the British scientist and writer C. P. Snow in 1959, is crucial to mo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/wings-dr-racheli-efrat-steinberg
September 13, 2011
Anyone who really wants to fly, can. It’s just a matter of will. That’s what Uri told me. Uri is the son of Shlomo, our neighborhood grocer. I stared at him, trying to figure out whether he was really dumb or just putting me on. But he stuck to his guns. “Yeah, I’ve...