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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/long-term-vision
April 8, 2013
88 Prof. Yael Hanein has a dream: to restore sight to the blind. Of course, this is a long-term vision, but her more immediate goal is also ambitious: to communicate with neural networks in the brain via nanotechnological devices. Such comm...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/atlas-cells
April 8, 2013
Where do proteins go when they move around the cell? Interested scientists will now be able to look up the answer. Dr. Maya Schuldiner and graduate student Michal Breker of the Molecular Genetics Department recently produced a comprehensive atlas of changes...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/path-taken
April 8, 2013
“Biologists live in hope of discovering 'textbook examples’,” says Dr. Maya Schuldiner of the Molecular Genetics Department. To demonstrate, she opens a biology textbook and points to a diagram o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-international-magazine-science-and-people-0
April 10, 2013
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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/secret-smile
April 17, 2013
At a very young age, babies learn to smile back. Soon after, they realize that if they themselves initiate the smiling, they will get a smile in return. As adults, too, we automatically correlate...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bringing-down-walls
April 17, 2013
Plant biomass can be converted into green fuel using clean, sustainable technologies, but the major challenge involved in producing biofuels from biomass on a large scale is the high cost. Visualizing the minutest details of biomass conversion down to the atomic level ca...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/noncoding-sequences-get-equal-listing
May 7, 2013
Nowadays, to the familiar mRNA that ferries the genetic instructions for protein production out of the cell nucleus, we can now add thousands of microRNAs, long non-coding RNA, piRNA, antisense RNA and more. In fact, of the roughly 80% of the DNA in the human genome that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/veto-disease
May 7, 2013
A little tolerance can go a long way. If the immune system, for instance, could be coaxed into tolerating foreign tissue rather than rejecting it outright, a variet...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/spies-inside
May 7, 2013
We do not live by bread alone. To digest the bread, as well as the rest of the food we consume, our bodies resort to the help of microbes that live in our gut. These number in the billions; their total weight adds u...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/mutations-trump-invasion
May 13, 2013
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a sly invader: It goes straight to the very immune cells meant to protect against infection, slips inside through the cells’ outer defenses and hijacks the cells’ machinery to make copies of itself. To seek out and i...
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