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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/heart-and-mind
April 2, 2012
“Never say ‘I’ve achieved all my goals’,” says Prof. Bernardo Vidne. “Once you’ve crossed everything off the list, that’s when you start to die.” Vidne has always taken his own advice. Until a few years ago, he was head of cardiac surgery in one of the large...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/darkness-noon
April 2, 2012
The woman in the image has a gorgeous mane of hair that partly wraps her naked torso. This is not a newly discovered Modigliani. The “woman” is in fact a portion of a plant cell magnified more than twenty thousand times. (Above, top) In a project that won first prize in the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/vitamin-map
April 2, 2012
Improve speed on the Piccadilly Line, create delays on the track to Hyde Park Corner, route more trains through Kings Cross. These are not suggestions for baffling passengers of the London Underground. Rather, it’s a metaphor describing how plant scientists may one day breed new...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/meeting-places
April 23, 2012
Our behavior is a product not just of who we are, but of where we are and who we’re with. That goes also for a protein called BID that plays a central role in our cells’ life cycles. Institute scientists studying this protein are finding that it can spli...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/israel-prize-prof-david-milstein
May 15, 2012
On Israel Independence Day, the Institute’s Prof. David Milstein received the 2012 Israel Prize for chemistry and physics. The Israel Prize is the country’s highest honor. Interactions between metal atoms and organic molecules are at the heart of Milstein’s work...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/core
May 15, 2012
"Structural Biology is a scientific area in which Israeli scientists have been leading for many years, as evidenced by the Weizmann Institute's Prof. Ada Yonath, who won a Nobel Prize in 2009 for her pioneering work on solving the structure of ribosomes," says the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-price-one
May 15, 2012
After we sense a threat, our brain center incharge of responding goes into gear, setting off a chain of biochemical reactions leading to the release of cortisol – a main stress hormone – from the adrenal glands. Dr. Gil Levkowitz and his team in the Mo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/skeletons-and-other-organs-cell-family-tree
May 15, 2012
In recent years, a number of controversial claims have been made about the female mammal’s egg supply – that it is renewed over her adult lifetime (as opposed to the conventional understanding that she...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/synthetic-cells-stand-real-thing
May 23, 2012
What makes one cell stick to its home base and another cell detach and migrate? How do cells “sense” their physical environment and respond? These questions go to the core of what it means to be a living cell, but the answers are anything but simple. Indeed, some...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/matchmaker
May 23, 2012
Does the perfect match exist? Despite the promises of numerous dating sites, finding the ideal mate is rarely a rational, systematic process. Until now, the same could be said for matches between protein molecules. We might be able to observe which proteins get together...
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