https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/meetings-cell
March 11, 2012
Walking across a sparsely occupied plaza, it shouldn’t take long to meet up with a person strolling through from the other side. Now, imagine crossing that same plaza filled with throngs of people. How much longer will one need to reach the other person? A similar que...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/production-overshoot
March 11, 2012
One person’s trash, they say, is another’s treasure. For Amit Zeisel, a research student in the group of Prof. Eytan Domany of the Physics of Complex Systems Department, and Dr. Wolfgang Köstler, an M.D. conducting Ph.D. research in the lab of Prof. Yosef Ya...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/cómo-las-células-se-preparan-para-periodos-de-hambruna
March 15, 2012
Spanish Press Release | Full Press Release List >> 23-02-2012 Azúcar, colesterol, fosfatos, zinc - un cuerpo sano es sorprendentemente bueno para mantener estos nutrientes vitales en los niveles apropiados dentro de las células. Desde un punto de vista...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/un-interruptor-de-encendido-único-para-reaccionar-al-estrés
March 15, 2012
Spanish Press Release | Full Press Release List >> 23-02-2012 Después de detectar una amenaza, nuestro centro cerebral encargado de responder a ella se pone a toda marcha, desencadenando una cadena de reacciones bioquímicas que conducen a la liberación...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/lancement-de-l’infrastructure-européenne-de-biologie-structurale-intégrée
March 18, 2012
French Press Release | Full Press Release List >> 23-02-2012 L'Institut Weizmann est l’un des sept nœuds de INSTRUCT D’importants changements dans les sciences biomédicales sont à l’horizon avec l’établissement de l’Infrastructure de Biologie Structu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/immune-system-tricks
March 19, 2012
A team of Weizmann Institute scientists has turned the tables on an autoimmune disease. In such diseases, including Crohn’s and rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s tissues. But the scientists managed to trick the immune systems o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/new-center-looks-past
March 19, 2012
When did modern humans arrive in Europe and Asia? At what rate have cultural changes spread from one region to another throughout history? How did Neanderthal teeth and bones differ from ours? These and many other topics will be investigated at the new Max Planck – Wei...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/weizmann-invention-visual-summarization
March 19, 2012
Yeda Research and Development, Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, recently entered into a license agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated related to a bidirectional similarity measure to summarize visual data. The bidir...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/doubly-prepared
March 19, 2012
Prof. Naama Barkai Sugar, cholesterol, phosphates, zinc – a healthy body is amazingly good at keeping such vital nutrients at appropriate levels within its cells. From an engineering point of view, one all-purpose model of the pumps on the surface of a cell shou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/science-slow-slip
March 25, 2012
We all know about the big earthquakes: The edges of two tectonic plates in the earth’s crust slip against one another, causing shaking and damage as the slip releases huge amounts of pent-up energy within mere seconds. The earth, however, literally moves under our f...