https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/officers
May 22, 2013
Officers of the Weizmann Institute Founding Chair - Dewey D. Stone Chair of the International Board - Mandy Moross Vice Chair - Lester Crown Chair of the Executive Board and Management Committee - Ido Dissentshik...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/supporting-network
May 22, 2013
AUSTRALIA Weizmann Australia Mr. Stephen Chipkin, Chair Ms. Rina Michael, Executive Director Suite 2, 7-13 Dover Road PO Box 611, Rose Bay, NSW 2029, Australia Tel.: 61 2 9371 7067 Mobile: 61 438 778 809 Fax.: 61 2 9371 8067 rina@weizmann.org.au www.weizmann....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/thank-you-1
May 22, 2013
We would like to thank all of the generous supporters of the Weizmann Institute research and activity highlighted in this Annual Report: Prof. Asaph Aharoni Tom and Sondra Rykoff Family Foundation Roberto and Renata Ruhman, Brazil Adelis Foundation Leona M. an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-prune-nerve-cell
May 28, 2013
Like a sprouting thicket, the cells of the developing nervous system extend long, thin branches called axons into all parts of the growing body. This thicket, at second gl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/alternate-endings
June 5, 2013
To save lives, it is sometimes vital to know as much as possible about death, in particular, the death of cells. For example, cancer chemotherapy works by activating a cellular death program call...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/viral-“crook”-cracks-many-locks
June 5, 2013
In short • VSV is a useful virus – one that is used to insert therapeutic genes into cells, and that can selectively kill cancer cells. • Scientists had assumed that VSV uses the LDL (“bad” cholesterol) receptor to break into cells, but it manages to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/side-effects-0
June 5, 2013
One of the known side effects of certain antidepressants and antianxiety drugs, including the popular drug Prozac, is weight gain. Research at the Weizmann Institute led by Prof. Yehiel Zick ha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/limits-growth
June 12, 2013
Elephants’ ears and those of humans may differ wildly in size, but nature provides each with a more-or-less fixed range and upper limit. Such evolutionary extremes are seen in the plant kingdom as well: Cabbage leaves, for instance, are ten times the size of those of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-angle-perception
June 12, 2013
How does the brain form a detailed, updated, accurate image of the world? The simple answer is that the sensory organs send electrical impulses though their nerve cells, which ultimately conduct those signals to the various “information-processing” centers in the brain. Rece...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/when-material-worlds-unite
July 2, 2013
An emerging class of materials and devices – organic electronics – has attracted much attention in the past two decades. In this world, such traditional inorganic semiconductors as silicon are combined with organic (carbon-based) materials. In combi...