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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/drift-against-tide
April 9, 2014
They are the foundation of the entire marine food chain – without them there would be no life in the ocean. They are also responsible for half the photosynthetic...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/stark-contrast
May 11, 2014
“At first sight, it's a mix of methods that couldn't possibly work together, and yet we have found it to work very well,” says Prof. Michael Elbaum of the Weizmann Institute’s Materials and Interfaces Department. Together with Dr. Sharon Grayer Wolf of Weizman...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/recollection-terrell-hill
April 13, 2014
By Prof. Michael Sela 13-4-2014 Sometime in 1955 or 1956, American scientist Terrell Leslie Hill (1917-2014) visited the Weizmann Institute. He was the guest of Aharon Katzir and Shneior Lifson, and I was honored to make his acquaintanc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/risk-assessment
April 28, 2014
Some 85% of smokers never get lung cancer, while a small percentage of unlucky non-smokers fall prey to the disease. Smoking is, of course, still the main known risk factor, but a test for susceptibility to this cancer could help prevent many deaths. Re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics-made-institute/fingerprint-diamond
May 19, 2014
Dr. Charles Bar-Isaac was in love when he traveled from Israel to Iran in the early 1970s: His goal was to meet the family of his future wife, Lil...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-reshaping-tool-reshapes-itself
May 19, 2014
Cells move inside our bodies all the time: to heal wounds, fight infection, perform maintenance of tissues. This may sound routine, but even the simplest move is a marvel of cellular engineering. It requires the cell to continuously reshape its inner scaffolding – the cytoskeleto...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/protein-reporters-go-location
May 27, 2014
Each cell in your body is an entire world: Hundreds of millions, or even billions, of protein molecules are crowded into its microscopic confines. Some have permanent “jobs” in particular locations in the cell while...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/completing-metabolite-picture
May 27, 2014
When you run, your body is undergoing all sorts of metabolic changes: A slew of substances produced from head to toe increase circulation and breathing rates, cause muscles to take up and burn sugars, open the pores in the skin and induce fatigue. Yet the ch...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/master-key
July 21, 2014
It takes only a tiny key to open a door wide or set large machinery in motion. Dr. Eran Hornstein of the Weizmann Institute’s Molecular Genetics Department and his team recently discovered such a key – one that unlocks the cellular machinery for producing mature blood ce...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/remembering-time
July 21, 2014
If you try to recall the details of yesterday’s dinner, they are probably still vivid in your mind. But recalling the dinner you had a few days ago takes much more effort, even if you’d been dining in the same place and in the same company. What neural mechanisms make the newer m...
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