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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/weizmann-institute-scientists-solve-3-d-structure-enzyme-involved-gaucher-disease
June 2, 2003
The discovery may help design effective therapies for the genetic disease that mainly affects Ashkenazi Jews An interdisciplinary team of Weizmann Institute scientists has solved the three-dimensional structure of an enzyme called glucocerebrosidase. Mutations occurri...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/multi-national-team-physicists-including-weizmann-institute-scientists
June 12, 2003
"Promising indications that we may have succeeded in reproducing matter as it first appeared in the universe right after the Big Bang" Recent results of a joint experiment conducted by 460 physicists from 57 research institutions in 12 countries strongly indicate that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people--/christopher-reeve-comes-weizmann-institute
July 29, 2003
"The curiosity and thirst for knowledge of the scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science bring hope for a better scientific and medical future." “The Weizmann Institute, for me, has always been a symbol of the best in research. It was founded by a man with a true...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/psoriasis-and-psoriatic-arthritis-treatment-passes-phase-ii-clinical-trials
August 20, 2003
Phase III in psoriasis to be initiated later this year Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease with as yet no cure that affects approximately 4.5 million people in the U.S. and 5.7 million people in Europe. About 10% of these people develop chronic inflammation of the join...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-understanding-key-control-mechanism-brain
January 13, 2000
Despite more than a century of research on inhibitory neurons, very little is known on how this small population (10-20% of brain neurons) exerts its controlling effect on the brain. Pivotal for normal brain development, learning, and memory, it is not surprising that inhibitory...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/x-rays-may-show-way-better-alzheimers-drugs
December 27, 1999
Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed the exact nature of the 3-D interaction between galanthamine, a natural substance extracted from the common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) and the brain enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Their findings, appearing in the December 17 iss...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/protein-teamwork-drives-damaged-cells-self-destruct
December 12, 1999
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have recently deciphered part of the cellular events underlying apoptosis -- programmed cell death. Their findings, published in Nature earlier this summer, provide important insights into cancer pathologies and their potential cur...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/smart-bomb-delivery-destroys-tumors-mice
December 29, 2003
A new method selectively kills cancer cells, leaves healthy ones intact Weizmann Institute scientists have destroyed malignant tumors in mice using a chemical that occurs naturally in garlic. The key to the scientists’ success lies in the development of a unique, two-st...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/1223
May 1, 2000
Mr. Gershon Kekst of New York, Chairman of the Weizmann Institute's Board of Governors, speaking in the name of the Institute's Nominating Committee, announced the candidacy of Prof. Ilan Chet for the position of Institute President. The Nominating Committee's recommendat...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/metastasis-colon-cancer-cells-reversed-vitro
January 5, 2004
Weizmann Institute scientists have succeeded in reversing the metastatic properties of colon cancer cells, in vitro. The findings, published in the Nov. 24 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, uncover a key process involved in the metastasis of colon cancer cells and raise hopes...
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