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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/hidden-passage
January 30, 2012
The white blood cells that fight disease and help the body heal are directed to sites of infection or injury by “exit signs” – chemical signals that tell them where to pass through the blood vessel walls and into the underlying tissue. Such signs consist of migration-promo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/phase-iii-clinical-trials-diabetes-treatment
January 30, 2012
A treatment for Type 1 diabetes developed by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Institute’s Immunology Department has met both the primary and secondary goals of phase III clinical trials. Andromeda Biotech, which is licensed by Yeda Research and Development, Ltd. (the technology...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/encryption-while-you-work
January 30, 2012
As computer data moves to the “cloud” – networks of shared, remote servers – security becomes more of a challenge. Ideally, users should be able to perform operations on their data with complete confidence that no one can peek over their virtual shoulders....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/searching-particle
January 30, 2012
In mid-December, as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, was winding up for the year, two of its groups, ATLAS and CMS, made an announcement. After a long search for the Higgs boson, both teams had discovered...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/proof-inequality
February 16, 2012
The LHC particle accelerator in CERN – the European Laboratory for Particle Physics – near Geneva, is expecting big discoveries in the near future. By big, of course, they mean ver...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/let-it-rain
February 16, 2012
Rain can be a blessing or a disaster. An hour of steady rainfall can water the roots of plants and percolate underground to replenish water supplies. If the same amount of water falls in a five-minute downpour, however, the results are...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/helm
February 27, 2012
It was with great sorrow that Dr. Benjamin Marcus Bloch gave up on physics to take on the management of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute at the request of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, wh...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/incorrigible-optimist
February 27, 2012
This is the first ever biography of Ernst David Bergmann: It is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary man. Born in 1903 in Germany, the eldest child of a rabbi, Bergmann became the scientific director of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute (the precursor...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/relating-relationships
March 5, 2012
Relationships can be a messy business. Fortunately for Yakir Reshef, identifying meaningful relationships is his forte. Born in Israel in 1987, Yakir found himself moving with his family to Kenya at age 3 and, shortly thereafter, immigrating to America. In h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences--science-culture/fundamentals-materials-energy-and
March 5, 2012
The old story of the blind men and the elephant – one describes the animal as a long hose, a second as a thick pillar, etc. – could be a metaphor for the scientific “multidisciplinary animal.” The field of energy research, for example, takes different forms, d...
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