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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics-science-culture/touching-something-no-one-found
January 28, 2013
An unusual video clip was produced for a recent reunion of Weizmann Institute physics alumni. The event organizers had turned to faculty alumnus Khen Shalem, who had changed fields to become a director of documentary films (his award-winning documentaries incl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-good-cells-turn-bad
February 10, 2013
How does a cell turn “bad” – from a well-behaved individual that respects boundaries and only divides when necessary, into a cancerous one whose reproduction is out of control? Is this antisocial conduct simply a product...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/question-upbringing
February 14, 2013
Failure to educate the young generation properly can have devastating consequences – not only among human beings, but among cells too. Uneducated immune cells, it turns ou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/proofreader-dna
February 14, 2013
A synthetic device made of biological molecules can be programmed to search for and identify exact DNA sequences inside living cells – and reject any of those sequences that contain errors, however tiny. The Weizmann Institute researchers who invented the device believe that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bringing-down-barriers
February 14, 2013
Our brains are well protected, and for a good reason. Most of the proteins present at high levels in the blood, such as antibodies or the regulatory molecule albumin, are kept...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/safer-stem-cell-scenario
February 24, 2013
Any virtue taken to an extreme can become a flaw. Take, for instance, stem cells. They hold tremendous promise for repairing or even replacing diseased tissues, by virtue of be...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/two-tests-are-better-one
March 20, 2013
One of the best ways to fight a disease is to find risk factors and learn how to identify them early on, before the disease can take hold. Even if the disease does develop, early treatment can improve chances for a cure. For instance, the steep drop in heart disease in recen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/double-trouble
March 20, 2013
When we are under heavy stress, our reactions can sometimes be excessive, even if we know our actions carry a price. Once we have the time to stop and reflect, we are likely to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/drugs-and-war
April 8, 2013
In December 1939, the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in the town of Rehovot had just turned five years old. That month, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Head of the Ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gateway-brain
April 8, 2013
As we get older, our memory tends to get creaky. According to new research, this “rusty brain” could be tied to an aging immune system. Two recent studies in the lab of Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Institute’s Neurobiology Department reveal how certain immune cells – loc...
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